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Windsurf IDE just got a massive AI upgrade that changes everything

And they finally silenced a major complain the doubters have always had

The new Windsurf IDE just got a massive new upgrade — and they finally silenced a major complain the AI doubters have always had.

The Wave 5 upgrade is here and it's packed with several game changing AI features to make coding easier and faster.

Completions from your clipboard

So ever since Windsurf first came out, they’ve been releasing massive upgrades in something they call Waves.

Like in Wave 3 they brought this intelligent new tab-to-jump feature that I’ve really been enjoying so far.

Just like you get inline code suggestions that you accept with Tab, now you get suggestions to jump to the place in the file where you’re most likely to continue making changes.

So like now it’s not just predicting your next line — it’s predicting your overall intent in the file and codebase at large. The context and ability grew way beyond just the code surrounding your cursor.

And things have been no different with Wave 4 and now 5 — huge huge context upgrades…

With Wave 5 Windsurf now uses your clipboard as context for code completions.

Just look at this:

It’s incredible.

We literally copied pseudocode and once we went back to start typing in the editor — it saw the Python file and function we were creating — it started making suggestions to implement the function.

And it would intelligently do the exact same thing for any other language.

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Best,
The Coding Beauty team