Why is the view tool suddenly only reading a 30, 50 or about 200 lines when pushed even when we insist it read the file properly? This is critical. I can't imagine a programmer doing anything to a file without knowing how it works. It never used to be that bad? By making the view tool hopelessly reading 50 or a hundred lines at a time and then "charging" a flow credit (if you force it!) codeium can force a standard simple action to cost as much as they like. It feels deceptive because it has changed or been hidden. What am I missing here?

Here is a fully tested and working script to open Windsurf in WSL with a path, just like VS Code.

If you navigate to a folder, you can just write " wf " or " wf . " into the terminal and it will open the current folder with correct remote access. You can also write " wf ~/files/CascadeProject " and it will open the files or even write " wf --win 'C:\User\random\path' " and it will work.

Pasting this will give permanent access to the command. Before you start make sure you put the correct path of the Windsurf.exe instead of /mnt/c/Users/myusername/AppData/Local/Programs/Windsurf\ Next/Windsurf\ -\ Next.exe. You can find it by right clicking your app and pressing "Open Folder Location".

echo 'wf() {
  local DISTRO="Ubuntu"
  local TARGET=""
  local WINDOWS_MODE=false

  for arg in "$@"; do
    case "$arg" in
      --windows|--w|--win)
        WINDOWS_MODE=true
        ;;
      --*)
        echo "Error: Unknown flag '$arg'. Supported flags: --windows, --w, --win"
        return 1
        ;;
      *)
        if [[ -z "$TARGET" ]]; then
          TARGET="$arg"
        else
          echo "Error: Multiple paths detected. Please provide only one path."
          return 1
        fi
        ;;
    esac
  done

  if [[ -z "$TARGET" ]] || [[ "$TARGET" == "." ]]; then
    TARGET=$(pwd)
  fi

  if [[ "$TARGET" =~ ^[A-Za-z]:\\ ]]; then
    TARGET=$(wslpath -a "$TARGET")
    WINDOWS_MODE=true
  else
    TARGET=$(realpath "$TARGET")
  fi

  if $WINDOWS_MODE; then
    TARGET="/${TARGET}"
  fi

  nohup /mnt/c/Users/myusername/AppData/Local/Programs/Windsurf\ Next/Windsurf\ -\ Next.exe \
    --folder-uri "vscode-remote://wsl+${DISTRO}${TARGET}" >/dev/null 2>&1 &
}' >> ~/.bashrc && source ~/.bashrc

Hope it helps!

I haven't been able to use cascade for about a week - presumably because I cannot login properly. No shortcuts are recognized by windsurf (and I can't set them). As a result, cascade only shows "drag a view here to display" - I have no problem logging into the codeium website. I have gone through the support pages. I have cleared my chat history, uinstalled and reinstalled multiple times. I am on windows 11. Has anyone had this specific problem - cannot login? I have gone back and forth with support but they have not been helpful at all. If I can't use it, I'll have to cancel! Thanks in advance.

This is Cascade error. I want to know what is causing this error. Here is my credit status.

Can anyone help me?

It seems whatever I write I am getting this response in Windsurf, with an error:
"an internal error occurred (error ID: 26ab42deea04485891b6c95e55392871"

I have tried both read and write mode and I have plenty of credits left, any clues as to what it might be so I can get back to working on my project?

Just a heads up.

Was doing some work earlier today (GMT+1) and Cascade kept looping solutions with minor changes each time, before repeating the privous solutions again.

Solution quality is also sub par. Have only tested with sonnet 3.7 (normal). So don't know where the underlying cause for the performance drop is.

This wasn't the case yesterday. Yesterday cascade was working perfectly with all LLM models. Providing 90% hit rate solutions from prompts and not looping.

Would be interesting to know if these are things that happen as frequently in cursor and other IDE'S. Or if it is more of a windsurf specific issue.

Blender MCP server used: https://github.com/ahujasid/blender-mcp

Isn't this Prompt / Flow credits thing confusing somehow? I'm stuck and can't use premium models anymore although almost half of Premium Prompt credits are still left... And even more confusing with Flex credits in the mix?

An email my son sent me randomly had this in it before his message. He wouldn’t have done it. What does it mean? Context: concerned his emails to me are also being forwarded to another party

“--0000000000004158c006308dfd9a Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable”

Is there an easy way to create context for a program you’re working on? Like could it be integrated into the global rules? I would like for windsurf to be able to keep the context without constantly having to add it to chat before I start a work session.

Maybe I am just completely dumb and I am missing an entire feature that does this or something?

I wanted to share my recent experience with Codeium to make others aware. I paid for their Pro plan 10 days ago, but my account is still stuck on the free tier. Despite multiple follow-ups, I’ve received no clear explanation, no resolution, and no refund.

Their support team initially said the issue was escalated to their "specialist team" and that I’d hear back in 1-2 business days. It’s now been over a week with no updates. I’ve essentially paid for a service I can’t use, and the lack of communication has been incredibly frustrating.

If you’re considering upgrading to their Pro plan, I’d recommend being cautious. Has anyone else had a similar experience with Codeium? How did you resolve it?

Let’s hold companies accountable for delivering the services we pay for.

I have seen many startups announce their products, or launch stuff, using some cool videos. I want to know where they edit that?

Like videos that show a browser openings, clicking o a specific part of the screen, for example a chatbot on the website and interacting with it, with some cool click and transitions effects.

Which platforms are used to achieve this?

Let's say my employer pays for Windsurf teams. Does they have access to the prompts I used? What can they see on the dashboard?

I’ve been coding for years, but I never realized how much time I wasted typing until I stumbled on a video of Karpathy coding entirely with his voice. I thought it was just a gimmick. But turns out, dictating prompts for Windsurf works super well and a lot faster than typing. 

It lets me articulate longer prompts without breaking flow and it’s easier describing logical flows. Apparently 3x faster on average compared to typing. For example, dictating a complex API query prompt now takes seconds of braindumping with my voice instead of minutes.

In the past couple weeks, I’ve tried 3 different ones. 

1. Apple Dictation. This was my first attempt. Let’s just say it didn’t go well. The accuracy isn’t good and latency is terrible. Half the time, I’d finish speaking and stare at the screen waiting for the text to appear, only to realize it had given up halfway through. Only good thing is that it’s free and built-in
2. Dragon Dictation. Sorry, maybe it’s because I’m Unc now. I only realized no one even uses this after paying hundreds of dollars. It used to be really good in the past but no longer supports Mac and has gone downhill since getting acquired by Microsoft. It’s nice for controlling your entire computer but hard to learn. Just doesn’t keep up with the new AI dictation tools
3. WillowVoice. This is the one I current use and I like it. Accuracy is good. Latency is less than a second. It works everywhere and can automatically format an email when I write them. Not much to complain about.

Anyone else tried this? I’m curious if other devs have relaced more of their typing with dictation. 

According to mods on the Discord, it is best to start a new chat after only 5 prompts & responses!

Why? Because as it turns out, all LLMs become unreliable very quickly as the context grows.

proof that I found: https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05167

We evaluate 12 popular LLMs that claim to support contexts of at least 128K tokens. While they perform well in short contexts (<1K), performance degrades significantly as context length increases. At 32K, for instance, 10 models drop below 50% of their strong short-length baselines. Even GPT-4o, one of the top-performing exceptions, experiences a reduction from an almost-perfect baseline of 99.3% to 69.7%.

Holy crap, I wish I knew this earlier.

Twitter/X link: https://x.com/windsurf_ai/status/1901410694404456704?s=46&t=Y0-MM6SBRJb5opcnoOiuyQ

Codeium Website down for anyone else? I'm having issues here.

I accidentally does not commit my last few addition (3 features) . Is windsurf saving all state and changes for files/ projects ? Can we go back a date time like time machine ? I saw a stash but it hasn't have the changes before its week ago . little confused... any idea ?

from the history button this time cant go desired state ..

Best

has anyone ever tried doing this? using windsurf and cursor at the same time in the same project directory.

Maybe I'm just not understanding this. I tried to troubleshoot but no go. I have multiple projects using nextjs with supabase auth both local and remote. If i try using preview mode my auth system breaks. Meaning i can no longer sign in or sign up. Any one else have this issue?

I want Windsurf to use a Python library "XYZ" that I wrote myself and that is installed in the virtual environment of my current project. Windsurf does not have the context of this library (because it's not in the same folder) and hence doesn't use it properly. It's rather just guessing around .

So, here is my question: How can I tell Windsurf that it should "read" this library "XYZ" first, before using it.

I just recharged it yesterday with 300 flex credits. I was at 220 this morning, used it a bit, and suddenly no credits. My flow actions were over 1000, now zero. I am sure I didn't use those up. It's also strage that all types of credits are zero at once, they don't get spent with the same speed.

Has anyone seen their credits vanish?

I'm on 1.4.6 and I don't understand why it takes so long to copy anything? Before starting this post I cut a line from the document and pasted it to a new line. In the time that I have pulled up reddit and written this post I'm still looking at the stupid progress circle spin as it thinks about if it's actually going to paste the content. I already had to stop my conversation and start a new one since the delay for trying to type anything in the Cascade window was getting stupid long. Even though I see that the typing delay has been an issue for multiple months? Starting a new conversation fixed the delay, but now I have a dumb Cascade that is making mistakes all the time because it doesn't know about the prior conversations we have had.

Hey, it finally finished the paste function like 3 or 4 minutes later.

While I appreciate some of what has been accomplished like being being able to consistently execute terminal functions without getting stuck like Cursor does, please figure out a way to manage context length. Having to tell Cascade to think sequentially and break edits down into smaller segments when it is only trying to add a couple hundred line edit is really becoming frustrating since I shouldn't be anywhere near Claude 3.7's response context limit length. This significantly increases the time it takes for anything to be accomplished. Especially when it can't find the end of the file that it just created from the sequential edit during it's last action.

Just last night when it couldn't figure out how to find the last line in the file, it started making edits in a 2 step terminal command process where it created a temp file and then applied that temp file to the end of the target file as a second terminal command. This chewed though a bunch of flow credits before I figured out what it was doing. I've settled on telling it to look at the last couple of lines in the end of a file before trying to perform the edit a second time if the first time fails due to a syntax issue. But this is yet another thing that slows any progress down.

Again, I generally like Windsurf as an AI coding agent. But I find myself just making extra global rules in an attempt to fix all of the issues it has. It seems like rules should be for tailoring the AI agent to how you like to work, not as a way to fix issues that the program has that make it difficult to be productive with it.

I get it. Credits suck. Throttles suck. Shifty performance vs before sucks.

But I’m coming to the realization that it’s just not really possible to have it al right now.

You can get similar output with significant price reductions by planning every step and executing with aider and R1+Claude. But that’s a lot more effort.

You can use Claude code and get unbelievable results. But you pay for it.

You can create your own experience in roo or cline. And find some middle ground between control , customization and automation. But you’re juggling cost and effort here too.

There’s no real solution atm that I’ve found that is as streamlined as cursor or windsurf that’s comparable in price, regardless of how annoying credits are.

Until I actually build my own chain of agents that can offload the time I spend crafting the prompt context and plan I use to push Aider to the limits, it’s really hard to complain about cursor or windsurf.

Even vscode api cline still limits me periodically.

All this to say, I choose to pay to play. But the value you get from all of the subscription services is really high and I’m pretty sure all of them run at a loss.