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Windsurf Tutorial for Beginners (AI Code Editor) - Better than Cursor??

2025-02-01 Education
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Join my Free Newsletter for coding challenges, project ideas, stories and inspiration: https://techwithtim.net/newsletter Today we're having a look at the AI Code Editor, Windsurf. Now this is a relatively new editor, it came out at the end of 2024. I've been using it for the past few months, so I was one of the first people that started using it, funny enough. And it slowly became one of my favorite AI coding editors. 🎓 Get private mentorship from me: https://training.techwithtim.net 🚀 My Software Development Program: https://coursecareers.com/a/techwithtim?course=software-dev-fundamentals&campaign=youtubedescription ⏳ Timestamps ⏳ 00:00 | About Windsurf 00:30 | Windsurf Pricing 01:30 | Setup 02:43 | Make a Plan 03:30 | Chat/Write Mode 04:07 | DevLaunch Mentorship 04:55 | Cascade Editor 05:57 | AI Running Terminal Commands 09:28 | Cascade Diff/Staging Area 11:11 | Features of The Chat Window 14:07 | Targeted AI Edits 15:03 | "Continue" Feature 17:32 | Tips for The Best Results Hashtags #windsurfcodeium #aicodeeditor #codeium

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@TechWithTim 2025-02-01

If you're looking for assistance directly from me than click here: https://training.techwithtim.net

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@dm204375 2025-02-02

One more important tip, after a while the agent will suffer in its outputs because it is reaching its context window. Have it summarize your project copy and start a new session and paste the summery, continue from there. That will fix the bad outputs.

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@abhishek30gogna1 2025-02-02

I am using it and the free version now can edit files

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@dima_riabovol 2025-03-03

One more great thing is that you can attach an image to the prompt, for example a screenshot of the design you need to implement, and ask to actually implement this UI. Quite helpful sometimes! I've heard that Windsurf supports adding a configuration file but I didn't use it. Did someone try it out?

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@artavenuebln 2025-04-10

I am a Product Designer and just created my whole portfolio website with this. It's crazy. I have some Development knowledge from very early in my career... but it even creates SVG animations for dark mode toggles... creates the javascript... mindblowing. I also told it to steal just my content from my own website. Couldn't save the images i had to do that manually, but overall. Wow.

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@balloney2175 2025-02-01

Thanks, Tim, for making our life easier to understand this valuable tool.

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@scottcampbell1768 2025-02-03

Great tips here especially about when the code is actually changed. Working in swift sometimes Windsurf is too smart for its own good and breaks other things I didn’t want to change.

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@cswithjack 2025-02-01

There are so many tools out there now. Thank you very breaking it down!

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@amentor-u7w 2025-07-12

love this take I had the same experience with Windsurf, but after trying genum ai alongside it the workflow felt even smoother. using them together basically replaced my old setup entirely

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@flekderantrow3706 2025-02-01

ai routine became common & trivial thank you continue

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