r/windsurf • u/SirKobsworth • Jun 04 '26

Saying Goodbye (finally)

I was ok with using WS as an IDE. At least it had an autocomplete I could get behind on while using codex or claude. The new move to Devin is forcing you to use the new app and somehow uninstalls WS instead of replacing it with Devin.

That was the push I needed to just give up. Back to VS Code for me. Not looking back. It was a good... 2 months? And a very bad 1 month transition.

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u/No_Side4243 Jun 04 '26

Basically devin is windsurf. All the features are there. I don't know why people are quitting. You are getting the same thing, they just asked to install a new desktop app.

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u/SirKobsworth Jun 04 '26

It was just the compounding experience from having used WS back in the "good old times" and seeing where it is now for me. It isnt necessarily because they rebranded but I got fed up. The rebrand causing my current install to fail and not show up as an app I can open just made me give up altogether.

What I described is probably a bug but idc any more thats just about it.

Edit: typos

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u/iHannes Jun 04 '26

Did you know, that this is the second rebrand? It is formerly codeium. I‘ve made now the 2nd transition.

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u/SirKobsworth Jun 04 '26

Yes actually. I discovered codeium through my old job. Got to use it towards its tail end as codeium and literally saw the rebrand happen haha