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This new IDE just destroyed VS Code and Copilot without even trying

Wow I never thought the day I stop using VS Code would come so soon...

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Wow I never thought the day I stop using VS Code would come so soon…

But the new Windsurf IDE blows VS Code out of the water — now I’ve cancelled my GitHub Copilot subscription and made it my main IDE.

And you know, when they said it was an “Agentic IDE” I was rolling my eyes at first because of all the previous hype with agents like AutoGPT.

But Windsurf shocked me.

These agentic tools are going to transform coding for sure — and not necessarily for the better — at least from the POV of software devs 😅

The agent actually makes useful changes to my code, and my prompt didn’t have to be so low-level. They call it Cascade and it saves so much time.

You see how it analyzes several areas in my code to make the changes — and this analysis can include many many files in your codebase.

And same for the changes — it’s doing the coding for you now.

Save tons of time by telling it to write your commit messages for you:

Just like Copilot it gives you code completions -- that's just expected at this point -- and they're free.

But it goes way beyond that with Supercomplete -- an incredible feature that predicts not just your next line, but your next intent.

Probably inspired by a similar feature in the Cursor IDE.

It doesn't just complete your code where the cursor is, it completes your high-level action. It "thinks" at a higher level of abstraction.

Like when you rename a variable it'll automatically know you want to do the same for all the other references.

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The Coding Beauty team