4 engineers on Hacker News describe using Windsurf first-hand: 2 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Once I was able to get some time in Windsurf I churned through my ideas in 2 hours.”
endorse · personal · zeristor · 2025-12-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the thing I find windsurf (which we moved to from copilot) most useful”
endorse · production · gcbirzan · 2025-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Been using Windsurf for a couple months and it was almost perfect with Sonnet 3.5”
mixed · personal · mdrzn · 2024-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“decided to cancel all IDE subscriptions (Visual Studio, JetBrains, Windsurf, etc.)”
neutral · production · zazibar · 2026-04-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?