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Wow this is incredible.

Windsurf just dropped an unbelievable new Wave 10 update with revolutionary new features that will make huge huge impacts on coding.

First off their new Planning Mode is an absolute game changer if you’ve ever felt like your AI forgets everything between sessions.

Now not only does the agent understand your entire codebase, it understands EVERYTHING you’re planning to do in the short and long-term of the project.

This is a insane amount of fresh context that will make a wild difference in how accurate the model is in any task you give it.

Like every Cascade conversation is now paired with a live Markdown plan — a sort of shared brain between you and the AI. You can use it to lay out tasks, priorities, and goals for a project, and the AI can update it too.

Change something in the plan? The AI will act on it. Hit a new roadblock in your code and the AI will suggest tweaks to the plan. It’s all synced.

You basically get long-term memory without the pain of reminding your assistant what’s going on every time you sit down to work.

Bonus: Thanks to optimizations from OpenAI, the o3 model now runs faster and costs way less to use — no more blowing through credits just to keep your plan in sync.

Insane new Windsurf Browser

This is unbelievable — they actually made a brand new browser. They are getting dead serious about this.

You can pull up docs, Stack Overflow, design systems — whatever you need — and actually highlight things to send directly to the AI.

No more nonsense like “Do this with the information from this link: {link}”. No more hopelessly switching between windows to copy and paste content from various tabs.

No more praying the AI understands vague prompts related to a webpage. It knows what you mean — it can see the webpage open in the Windsurf Browser.

And the context just flows — you stay in the zone, the AI stays sharp, and your productivity hits extraordinary levels.

Clean UI and smarter team tools

The whole interface feels more polished now. Everything — from turning on Planning Mode to switching models — is just more intuitive. It’s easier to get started, easier to navigate, and easier to focus.

If you’re working on a team, there are better controls for sharing plans, managing usage, and tracking what the AI has been up to. Admins get new dashboards, and the security updates mean it’s ready for serious enterprise use too.

This is huge

Wave 10 isn’t just about making the AI do more — it’s about making it think better with you. Instead of just reacting to each prompt, it now helps you think through big-picture stuff. Instead of copying and pasting from ten browser tabs, you can just highlight and go. And the whole experience feels lighter, tighter, and faster.

If you’re already using Windsurf, these updates will quietly upgrade your entire workflow. If you’re not — this might be the version worth jumping in for.

Windsurf is no longer just an AI assistant. It’s starting to feel like a co-pilot who understands you more and more, including all your intents for the project.

Context from everywhere — your clipboard, your terminal, your browser, your past edits…

Not just the line of code you’re writing.

Not just the current file.

Not even just the codebase.

But now even every single thing you plan to do in the lifespan of your project.

Wild stuff — seventeen days.

Pieter Levels spun up a lean, browser-based flight sim with Three.js and AI—and hit $1 million in ARR.

Literally 3 hours to get a fully functioning demo:

No long specs. No bloated roadmaps. He “vibe coded”: prompt-driven AI snippets for shaders, UI components, data models, even placeholder art. In hours he had a runnable demo. In days he had a money-making SaaS.

The game is free to play. You load a tab, pilot simple shapes, and enjoy slick visuals. Revenue lives in ad slots: branded zeppelins, floating billboards and terrain logos at about $5,000 a month each. Stack enough placements—and you get real ARR numbers fast.

This is just another example of the massive leverage you get from AI as a devpreneur.

AI slashes months off your backlog. You can chew through boilerplate and focus on high-leverage features: core loops, retention hooks, monetization edges.

Think about what that means:

• Accelerate Monetization Cycles
  Ship a monetizable prototype in a week, test ad yield or microtransactions live, then pivot before your competition has finished specs.
• Collapse Development Timelines
  With AI scaffolding, you scaffold services, UIs, and even tests in minutes. That’s hours saved on wiring and debugging.
• Turn Audience + Execution into Unfair Advantage
  Levels already had followers. He teased progress, built hype, then captured early ad buyers. You can mirror that: build in public, rally your network, and lock in brand deals before final launch.
• Iterate Before Spec Docs Are Done
  Stop over-engineering. Ship minimal viable features, gather real user data, then refine—without a months-long spec freeze.

The tech stack here is trivial: Three.js in a browser. No heavy engines. No complex backends. Just a tab and some serverless endpoints for ad tracking. Combine that with Copilot-style code generation, GPT-powered API clients, and quick-start templates—and you’ve got a launchpad.

Of course, success at this speed takes more than AI prompts. You need:

1. A Clear Value Hook. Free flight demos grab attention. But you still need a reason for users to return—and for brands to pay again next month.
2. A Monetization Plan from Day One. Design your ad slots or paywalls around genuine engagement points.
3. Audience Playbook. Share dev logs. Release teasers. Let your early adopters champion your launch.

Pieter’s flight sim nailed all three. He built in public. He sold ad inventory before full polish. He lean-iterated on visuals to maximize time on screen (and ad impressions).

Here’s a quick blueprint for your next SaaS:

1. Ideate Your Core Loop. What’s the smallest, repeatable action that drives value?
2. AI-First Scaffolding. Prompt for code, UI, tests. Then stitch modules together.
3. Vibe Code Your MVP. Ship within days. Track usage. Gather feedback.
4. Monetize Early. Offer ad slots, subscriptions, or pay-per-feature. Get real cash flowing.
5. Iterate Relentlessly. Use real metrics to prioritize fixes and features—no gut-feel guesses.

AI plus vibe coding isn’t a buzzword. It’s your secret weapon to outpace big teams, collapse timelines, and monetize before most devs even start testing. Build. Ship. Monetize. Repeat. That’s your unfair edge.

These lovely VS Code extensions used to be so very helpful to save time and be more productive.

But this is 2025 now, and coding agents and AI-first IDEs like Windsurf have them all much less useful or completely obsolete.

1. JavaScript (ES6) code snippets

What did it do?
Provided shortcut-based code templates (e.g. typing clg → console.log()), saving keystrokes for common patterns.

Why less useful:
AI generates code dynamically based on context and high-level goals — not just boilerplate like forof → for (...) {} and clg → console.log(...) . It adapts to your logic, naming, and intent without needing memorized triggers.

Just tell it what you want at a high-level in natural language, and let it handle the details of if statements and for loops and all.

And of course when you want more low-level control, we still have AI code completions to easily write the boilerplate for you.

2. Regex Previewer

What did it do?
Helped users write and preview complex regular expressions for search/replace tasks or data extraction.

Why less useful:
AI understands text structure and intent. You just ask “extract all prices from the string with a new function in a new file” and it writes, explains, and applies the regex.

3. REST Client

What did it do?
Let you write and run HTTP requests (GET, POST, etc.) directly in VSCode, similar to Postman.

Why less useful:
AI can intelligently run API calls with curl using context from your open files and codebase. You just say what you want to test — “Test this route with curl”.

4. autoDocString

What did it do?
Auto-generated docstrings, function comments, and annotations from function signatures.

Why obsolete:
AI writes comprehensive documentation in your tone and style, inline as you code — with better context and detail than templates ever could.

5. Emmet

Emmet allowed you to write shorthand HTML/CSS expressions (like ul>li*5) that expanded into full markup structures instantly.

Why less useful:
AI can generate semantic, styled HTML or JSX from plain instructions — e.g., “Create a responsive navbar with logo on the left and nav items on the right.” No need to memorize or type Emmet shortcuts when you can just describe the structure.

Or of course it don’t have to stop at basic HTML. You can work with files from React, Angular, Vue, and so much more.

6. Jest Snippets

What did it do?
Stubbed out unit test structures (e.g., Jest, Mocha) for functions, including basic test case scaffolding.

Why obsolete:
AI writes full test suites with assertions, edge cases, and mock setup — all custom to the function logic and use-case.

7. Angular Snippets (Version 18)

What did it do?
Generated code snippets for Angular components, services.

Why obsolete:
AI scaffolds entire components, hooks, and pages just by describing them — with fewer constraints and no need for config.

8. Markdown All in One

What did it do?
Helped structure Markdown files, offered live preview, and provided shortcuts for common patterns (e.g., headers, tables, badges).

Why less useful:
AI writes full README files — from install instructions to API docs and licensing — in one go. No need for manual structuring.

9. JavaScript Booster

What did it do?
JavaScript Booster offered smart code refactoring like converting var to const, wrapping conditions with early returns, or simplifying expressions.

Why obsolete:
AI doesn’t just refactor mechanically — it understands why a change improves the code. You can ask things like “refactor this function for readability” or “make this async and handle edge cases”, and get optimized results without clicking through suggestions.

10. Refactorix

What did it do?
These tools offered context-aware, menu-driven refactors like extracting variables, inlining functions, renaming symbols, or flipping if/else logic — usually tied to language servers or static analysis.

Why obsolete:
AI agents don’t just apply mechanical refactors — they rewrite code for clarity, performance, or design goals based on your prompt.

So it begins.

We told you AI was coming for tons of programming jobs but you refused to listen. You said it’s all mindless hype.

You said AI is just “improved Google”. You said it’s “glorified autocomplete”.

Now Microsoft just swung the axe big time. Huge huge layoffs. Thousands of software developers gone.

Okay maybe this is just an isolated event, right? It couldn’t possibly be the sign of the things to come, right?

Okay no it was just “corporate restructuring”.

Fine I won’t argue with you but you need to look at the facts.

30% of production code in Microsoft is now written by AI – not from anyone’s ass – from Satya Nadella himself (heard of the guy?).

25% of production code in Google written by AI.

Oh but I know the deniers among you will try to cope by saying it’s just template boilerplate code or unit tests that the AI writes. No they don’t write “real code” that needs “creativity” and “problem solving”. Ha ha ha.

Or they’ll say trash like, “Oh but my IDE writes my code too, and I still have my job”. Yeah I’ve seen this.

Sure because IDE tools like search & replace or Intellisense are in anyway equatable to an autonomous AI that understands your entire codebase and makes several intelligent changes across files with just a simple prompt.

Maybe you can’t really blame them since these days even the slightest bit of automation in a product is called AI by desperate marketing.

Oh yes, powerful agentic reasoning vibe coding tools like Windsurf and Cursor are no different from hard-coded algorithmic features like autocomplete, right?

I mean these people already said the agentic AI tools are no different from copying & pasting from Google. They already said it can’t really reason.

Just glorified StackOverflow right?

Even with the massive successes of AI tools like GitHub Copilot you’re still here sticking your head in your stand and avoiding seeing the writing on the wall.

VS Code saw the writing the wall and started screaming AI from the rooftops. It’s all about Copilot now.

Look now OpenAI wants to buy Windsurf for 3 billion dollars. Just for fun right?

Everybody can see the writing on the wall.

And you’re still here talking trash about how it’s all just hype.

What would it take to finally convince these people that these AI software engineering agents are the real deal?

This is wild.

Microsoft just released an insane upgrade for their OS that will change everything about software development — especially when Google and Apple follow suit.

MCP support in operating systems like Window is going to be an absolute game changer for how we develop apps and interact with our devices.

The potential is massive. You could build AI agents that understand far far beyond what’s going on within your app.

They will now all have access to a ridiculous amount of context from other apps and the OS itself.

Speaking of OSs we could finally have universal AI assistants that can SEE AND DO EVERYTHING.

We’re already seeing Google start to do this internally between Gemini and other Google apps like YouTube and Maps.

But now we’re talking every single app on your device that does anything — using any one of them to get data and perform actions autonomously as needed.

No longer the dumb trash we’ve been having that could only do basic stuff like set reminders or search the web — and can’t even understand what you’re telling it do at times.

Now you just tell your assistant, “Give me all my photos from my last holiday and send them to Sandra and ask her what she thinks” — and that’s that. You don’t need to open anything.

It will search Apple Photos and Google Photos and OneDrive and every photo app on your device.

It would resolve every ambiguity with simple questions — send them how — WhatsApp? Which Sandra?

We’ve been building apps that largely exist in their own little worlds. Sure they talk to APIs and maybe integrate with a few specific services. But seamless interaction with the entire operating system has been more of a dream than a reality.

MCP blows that wide open. Suddenly, our AI agents aren’t just confined to a chatbot window. They can access your file system, understand your active applications, and even interact with other services running on Windows. This isn’t just about making Copilot smarter; it’s about making your agents smarter, capable of far more complex and context-aware tasks.

Imagine an AI agent you build that can truly understand a user’s workflow. It sees they’re struggling with a task, understands the context from their open apps, and proactively suggests a solution or even takes action. No more isolated tools. No more jumping between applications just to get basic information.

Of course the security implications are massive. Giving AI this level of access requires extreme caution. Microsoft’s focus on secure proxies, tool-level authorization, and runtime isolation is crucial. Devs need to be acutely aware of these new attack surfaces and build with security as a paramount concern. “Trust, but verify” becomes even more critical when an AI can manipulate your system.

So, what would this mean for your SaaS app? Start thinking beyond API calls. Think of every other app or MCP source your user could have. Think of all the ways an AI agent could use the data from your app.

This is a clear signal that the future of software development involves building for an intelligent, interconnected environment. The era of the all-knowing all-powerful universal AI assistant isn’t a distant sci-fi fantasy; it’s being built, piece by piece, right now. And with MCP, we’ve just been handed a key component to help us build it. Let’s get to work.

Woah this is completely insane.

Google’s new Veo 3 video generator completely blows OpenAI’s Sora out of the water.

This level of realism is absolutely stunning. This is going to destroy so many jobs…

And now it has audio — something Sora is totally clueless about.

Veo 3 videos come with sound effects, background ambient noises, and even character dialogue, all perfectly synced.

Imagine a comedian on stage, and you hear their voice, the audience laughing, and the subtle murmurs of the club – all generated by AI. This is just a massive massive leap forward.

Models like Sora can create clips from text prompts but you have to go through a whole separate process to add sound. That means extra time, extra tools, and often, less-than-perfect synchronization.

Veo 3 streamlines the entire creative process. You input your vision, and it handles both the sight and the sound.

This isn’t just about adding noise. Veo 3 understands the context. If you ask for a “storm at sea,” you’ll get the crashing waves, the creaking ship, and maybe even a dramatic voiceover, all perfectly woven into the visual narrative. It’s truly uncanny how realistic it feels.

Beyond the audio, Veo 3 also boasts incredible visual fidelity with videos up to 4K resolution with photorealistic details. It’s excellent at interpreting complex prompts, translating your detailed descriptions into stunning visuals.

You can even create videos using the aesthetic of an image — much more intuitive than having to describe the style in text.

And — this one is huge — you can reuse the same character across multiple videos and keep things consistent.

I’m sure you can see how big of a deal this is going be for things like movie production.

You can even dictate camera movements – pans, zooms, specific angles – and Veo 3 will try its best to execute them.

Google’s new AI-powered filmmaking app, Flow, integrates with Veo 3, offering an even more comprehensive environment for creative control. Think of it as a virtual production studio where you can manage your scenes, refine your shots, and bring your story to life.

Of course, such powerful technology comes with responsibility. Google is implementing safeguards like SynthID to watermark AI-generated content, helping to distinguish it from real footage. This is crucial as the lines between reality and AI-generated content continue to blur.

Right now, Veo 3 is rolling out to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in select regions, with more to follow. It’s certainly a premium offering. However, its potential to democratize video creation is immense. From independent filmmakers to educators and marketers, this tool could transform how we tell stories.

Content creation and film production will never be the same with Veo 3.

And don’t forget, this is just version 3. Remember how ridiculously fast Midjourney evolved in just 2.

This is happening and there’s no going back.

Woah this is huge.

Anthropic just went nuclear on OpenAI and Google with their insane new Claude 4 model. The powerful response we’ve been waiting for.

Claude 4 literally just did all the coding by itself on a project for a full hour and a half — zero human assistance.

That’s right — 90 actual minutes of total hands-free autonomous coding genius with zero bugs. The progress is wild. They will never admit it but it’s looking like coding jobs well under serious attack right now. It’s happening.

How many of us can even code for 30 minutes straight at maximum capacity? Good, working code? lol…

This is just a massive massive leap forward for how we build software. These people are not here to joke around with anyone, let me just tell you.

Zero punches pulled. They’re explicitly calling Opus 4 the “world’s best coding model.” And based on their benchmark results, like outperforming GPT-4.1 on SWE-bench and Terminal-bench, they’ve got a strong case.

But what truly sets it apart Claude 4 handles complex, long-horizon coding tasks like the one in the demo.

We’re talking hours and hours of sustained focus. Imagine refactoring a massive codebase or building an entire full-stack application with an AI that doesn’t lose its train of thought. Traditional AI often struggles to maintain context over extended periods, but Claude 4 is designed to stay on target.

Another killer feature is its memory.

Give Claude 4 access to your local files, and it can create “memory files.” These files store crucial project details, coding patterns, and even your preferences. This means Claude remembers your project’s nuances across sessions, leading to more coherent and effective assistance. It’s like having a coding buddy who never forgets your project’s unique quirks.

And for those of us who dread debugging, Claude 4 is here to help.

It’s already looking incredibly good at finding even subtle issues, like memory leaks. An AI that not only writes clean, well-structured code but also sniffs out those pesky hidden bugs. That alone is worth its weight in gold.

Beyond individual tasks Claude 4 excels at parallel tool execution. It can use multiple tools simultaneously, speeding up complex workflows by calling on various APIs or plugins all at once. This means less waiting and more efficient development.

Anthropic is also putting a big big emphasis on integration. They’re building a complete “Claude Code” ecosystem. Think seamless integration with your favorite developer tools.

Claude Sonnet 4 is already powering a new coding agent in GitHub Copilot – Windsurf and Cursor will follow suit shortly.

Plus, new beta extensions are available for VS Code and JetBrains, allowing Claude’s proposed edits to appear directly inline. This isn’t just a separate tool; it’s becoming an integral part of your development environment.

They’ve even released a Claude Code SDK, letting you use the coding assistant directly in your terminal or even running in the background. And with the Files API and MCP Connector, it can access your code repositories and integrate with multiple external tools effortlessly.

Claude 4 isn’t just a new model — it’s a new era for software development.

Google I/O yesterday was simply unbelievable.

AI from head to toe and front to back, insane new AI tools for everyone — Search AI, Android AI, XR AI, Gemini upgrades…

Developers were so so not left behind — a ridiculous amounts of updates across their developer products.

Insane coding agents, huge model updates, brand new IDE releases, crazy new AI tools and APIs…

Just insane.

Google sees developers as the architects of the future and this I/O 2025 definitely proved it.

The goal is simple: make building amazing AI applications even better. Let’s dive into some of the highlights.

Huge Gemini 2.5 Flash upgrades

The Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview is more powerful than ever.

This new version of their top model is super fast and efficient, with improved coding and complex reasoning.

They’ve also added “thought summaries” to their 2.5 models for better transparency and control, with “thinking budgets” coming soon to help you manage costs. Both Flash and Pro versions are in preview now in Google AI Studio and Vertex AI.

Exciting new models for every need

Google also rolled out a bunch of new models, giving developers more choices for their specific projects.

Gemma 3n

This is their latest open multimodal model, designed to run smoothly on your phones, laptops, and tablets. It handles audio, text, images, and video! You can check it out in Google AI Studio and with Google AI Edge today.

Gemini Diffusion

Get ready for speed! This new text model is incredibly fast, generating content five times quicker than their previous fastest model, while still matching its coding performance. If you’re interested, you can sign up for the waitlist.

Lyria RealTime

Imagine creating and performing music in real-time. This experimental model lets you do just that! It’s available through the Gemini API.

Beyond these, they also introduced specialized Gemma family variants:

MedGemma

This open model is designed for medical text and image understanding. It’s perfect for developers building healthcare applications, like analyzing medical images. It’s available now through Health AI Developer Foundations.

SignGemma

An upcoming open model that translates sign languages (like American Sign Language to English) into spoken language text.

This will help developers create amazing new apps for Deaf and Hard of Hearing users.

Fresh tools to make software dev so much easier

Google truly understands the developer workflow, and they’ve released some incredible tools to streamline the process.

A New, More Agentic Colab

Soon, Colab will be a fully “agentic” experience. You’ll just tell it what you want, and it will take action, fixing errors and transforming code to help you solve tough problems faster.

Gemini Code Assist

Good news! Their free AI-coding assistant, Gemini Code Assist for individuals, and their code review agent, Gemini Code Assist for GitHub, are now generally available. Gemini 2.5 powers Code Assist, and a massive 2 million token context window is coming for Standard and Enterprise developers.

Firebase Studio

The official unveiling after replacing Project IDX.

This new cloud-based AI workspace makes building full-stack AI apps much easier.

You can even bring Figma designs to life directly in Firebase Studio. Plus, it can now detect when your app needs a backend and set it up for you automatically.

Jules

Now available to everyone, Jules is an asynchronous coding agent. It handles all those small, annoying tasks you’d rather not do, like tackling bugs, managing multiple tasks, or even starting a new feature. Jules works directly with GitHub, clones your repository, and creates a pull request when it’s ready.

Stitch

This new AI-powered tool lets you generate high-quality UI designs and front-end code with simple language descriptions or image prompts. It’s lightning-fast for bringing ideas to life, letting you iterate on designs, adjust themes, and easily export to CSS/HTML or Figma.

Powering up with the Gemini API

The Gemini API also received significant updates, giving developers even more control and flexibility.

Google AI Studio updates

This is still the fastest way to start building with the Gemini API. It now leverages the cutting-edge Gemini 2.5 models and new generative media models like Imagen and Veo. Gemini 2.5 Pro is integrated into its native code editor for faster prototyping, and you can instantly generate web apps from text, image, or video prompts.

Native Audio Output & Live API

New Gemini 2.5 Flash models in preview include features like proactive video (detecting key events), proactive audio (ignoring irrelevant signals), and affective dialogue (responding to user tone). This is rolling out now!

Native Audio Dialogue

Developers can now preview new Gemini 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities. This allows for sophisticated single and multi-speaker speech output, and you can precisely control voice style, accent, and pace for truly customized AI-generated audio.

Asynchronous Function Calling

This new feature lets you call longer-running functions or tools in the background without interrupting the main conversation flow.

Computer Use API

Now in the Gemini API for Trusted Testers, this feature lets developers build applications that can browse the web or use other software tools under your direction. It will roll out to more developers later this year.

URL Context

They’ve added support for a new experimental tool, URL context, which retrieves the full page context from URLs. This can be used alone or with other tools like Google Search.

Model Context Protocol (MCP) support

The Gemini API and SDK will now support MCP, making it easier for developers to use a wide range of open-source tools.

Google I/O 2025 truly delivered a wealth of new models, tools, and API updates.

It’s clear that Google is committed to empowering devs to build the next generation of AI applications.

The future is looking incredibly exciting!

OpenAI’s new Codex AI agent is seriously revolutionary.

This is in a completely different league from agentic tools like Windsurf or Cursor.

Look how Codex effortlessly fixed several bugs in this project — completely autonomously.

37 good issues easily slashed away without the slightest bit of human intervention.

All this time we’ve been gushing over how great all these AI coding agents are with their powerful IDE integration and context-aware suggestions and multi-file edits.

Now here comes OpenAI Codex with something radically different. Not even close.

With Codex we might all eventually end up saying bye bye to IDEs altogether.

No more opening up your lovely VS Code to run complex command-line scripts or navigate files or modify code.

You simply tell an AI what you want to do to your system “Add a user authentication flow.” “Fix the bug in the payment gateway.” “”

And Codex would just do it.

This is the promise of OpenAI’s new Codex agent. It’s an AI so advanced, so capable, that it might just pave the way for a future where the traditional IDE becomes a relic.

The core idea is astonishingly simple: you describe the desired changes in natural language, and Codex does the rest.

It’s not just generating a snippet of code; it’s making comprehensive modifications to your entire system.

Codex lives in the cloud. You interact with it through a simple interface like a chat window. You’re giving it instructions, not manipulating files.

Think about it: the entire development process happens in a sandboxed, cloud environment.

Codex takes your instructions, loads your codebase into its secure workspace, makes the changes, runs tests, and even prepares pull requests. All of this without you ever needing to open a single file on your local machine.

This is the ultimate abstraction. The IDE, that familiar workbench where you meticulously craft every line, simply vanishes. The user interface for coding becomes your own language. Zero code.

For years, IDEs have been our central hub for development. They provide syntax highlighting, debugging tools, version control integration, and so much more. They’re indispensable. Or so we thought.

Codex challenges this fundamental assumption. If an AI can reliably understand complex instructions, perform multi-file edits, ensure code quality, and even integrate with your deployment pipeline, what’s the point of the traditional IDE? Its features become functionalities of the AI agent itself.

The workflow shifts dramatically. Instead of spending hours writing code, you’re now guiding an incredibly powerful AI. Your role evolves from a coder to a system architect, a high-level strategist. You define the “what,” and Codex figures out the “how.”

This isn’t about simply auto-completing your lines. It’s about delegating entire feature development cycles. Debugging? Codex can run tests and identify issues. Refactoring? Just tell it what structure you prefer.

While agents like Windsurf Cascade are about augmenting your current IDE experience, Codex is hinting at a future where that experience is entirely re-imagined. It’s a bold step towards a world where coding becomes less about the mechanics of typing and more about the articulation of intent.

Will IDEs truly die? Perhaps not entirely, not overnight. But the power and autonomy of agents like Codex suggest a future where the current development paradigm is fundamentally reshaped. Your keyboard might still be there, but your IDE might just be a whisper in the cloud.

Wow this is incredible.

Windsurf IDE’s new SWE agents completely blows traditional AI coding agents out of the water.

Yes I’m talking about coding agents like Cursor Composer and even the new VS Code agent that just dropped like how many days ago.

They are already outdated.

Look this is way way different from the typical stuff we’re used to from our coding agents.

Forget coding — this is full-scale autonomous software engineering from start to finish.

AI coding agents have been the latest and greatest in the coding world for a while. They were a major step up from simple code completions.

They could understand complex instructions. Multi-file edits were a piece of cake. Powerful effortless high-level coding.

But right now these are nothing, absolutely nothing compared to the new SWE-1 models. This is not just another iteration. This is a fundamental shift.

Forget agents that try to grasp the bigger picture. SWE-1 lives in it.

These aren’t just language models tweaked for code. Windsurf built these from the ground up. Software engineering is in their DNA.

The difference lies in what Windsurf calls “flow awareness.” It’s not just about understanding the current code. It’s about understanding the process.

Think about it. Coding isn’t just about writing lines. It’s about navigating different environments. It’s about understanding the history. It’s about anticipating the next step, even across different tools.

That’s where SWE-1 shines. It sees the whole flow. Your IDE. Your terminal. Your browser.

It understands the context switching. It gets what you’re trying to do and how it fits into the big picture.

LLMs like Copilot understand your next line.

AI coding agents understand your codebase:

SWE agents understand your understand your ENTIRE system. This is automation at an unbelievably high level of abstraction.

This “flow awareness” allows for a level of collaboration we haven’t seen before. It’s not just the AI spitting out code snippets across your codebase. It’s a true partnership.

And get this, they didn’t just release one. There’s a whole family of these SWE-1 models. The main one, just called SWE-1, is a powerhouse. People who’ve tested it say it’s right up there with the best models out there, but maybe even cheaper to use.

Then there’s SWE-1-lite. This one’s replacing their older model, and it’s apparently a big step up in quality. The best part? Everyone, even free users, can use it as much as they want. That’s pretty awesome.

Oh, and for those little code snippets you need super fast? They’ve got SWE-1-mini. This one powers the code suggestions in their editor and again, unlimited use for everyone.

Windsurf isn’t just saying these things. They’ve got their own tests showing SWE-1 keeping up with the top dogs. And real developers using it are apparently getting a lot more code done each day. That’s the kind of proof that matters, right?

Think about it. Instead of just telling an AI to “write a function,” you’ve got an agent that understands why you need that function, how it fits into the rest of your project, and can even help you debug it later. It’s like having a super-smart pair programmer who’s always on the same page.

This isn’t just an upgrade. It feels like a completely new way of working with AI in software development. Those old AI coding agents? They had their moment.

But Windsurf’s SWE agents? They’re operating on a whole different level of intelligence and understanding. It really does feel like they just changed the game.

And honestly I’m excited to see where this goes next.

Or maybe we should be worried. 😅