The new Windsurf IDE just got a massive new upgrade to finally silence the AI doubters.
The Wave 5 upgrade is here and it’s packed with several game changing AI features to make coding easier and faster.
So ever since Windsurf first came out, they’ve been releasing massive upgrades in something they call Waves.
Like in Wave 3 they brought tis 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.
It’ll be really handy when copying answers from ChatGPT or StackOverflow that you can’t just paste to drop into your codebase.
Instead of having to paste and format/edit, Windsurf automatically integrates what you copied into your codebase.
But Wave 5 goes way beyond basic copy and paste.
With this new update Windsurf now uses your conversation history with Cascade chat as context for all your code completions.
Look at this.
Cascade didn’t even give us any code snippets — but still the Tab feature understood the chat message to realize what you’re most likely to do next in the codebase.
So you see, we’re getting even more ways to edit our code from chatting with Cascade — depending on the use case.
You can make Windsurf edit the code directly with Cascade Write mode — auto-pilot vibe coding.
You can chat with Cascade and get snippets of changes that can be made — which you can accept one at a time, based on what you think is best.
Or now, you can use Cascade to get guidelines on what you need to do, then write the code yourself for fine-grained control — using insanely sophisticated Tab completions along the way to move faster than ever.
I know some of you still don’t want trust the auto-edits from vibe coding tools — this update is certainly for you.
Which ever level of control you want, Windsurf can handle it.
And it still doesn’t stop there with Wave 5 — your terminal isn’t getting left behind…
Context from the IDE terminal include all your past commands:
These AI IDEs just keep getting better and better.
The gap between between devs who use these tools and those acting like they’re irrelevant just keeps growing wider everyday.
Now, even more updates to help you spent less time on grunt coding and develop with lightning speed — while still having precise control of everything when you choose too.
Now with Wave 5 — a smarter coding companion with even more context to better predict thoughts and save you from lifting much of a finger — apart from the one to press Tab.