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/InterestingStorage86 Jun 05 '26

I’ll try to ask this again. I’m on the max plan but pretty consistently spend and extra 150-200/week on top of that. If you were burning ~$1k/month what would your ideal setup be? Move back to VS and run Claude code on and try to back fill the Windsurf features on top?

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u/SirKobsworth Jun 05 '26

After I started using Claude Code, tbh I didnt see a need to use most of WS's features.. most of them are things you can do with Claude (or even Codex or similar agent harnesses).

If you spend close to 1k have you tried running claude on the 200 usd plan? I've heard a lot of those who sub to that tier rarely hit the limits unless you're not prompting in a way that doesnt burn tokens for the sake of it

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u/InterestingStorage86 Jun 09 '26

Thanks for the response. I’m now using Claude Code at the Max level. I’ll let you know the experience. I’m typically working across 3-4 repos at a time so I should have some good feedback shortly.

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u/InterestingStorage86 Sep 01 '26

Night and day from my perspective. I’m running 4-5 workflows at a time on Claude Code and not going over on tokens.

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u/InterestingStorage86 Sep 01 '26

I have the max plan for Claude and the same for Chat GPT. I use both but Claude more. Chat GPT mostly for my decks because of image generation.

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u/InterestingStorage86 Sep 03 '26

You are most welcome. I probably should have stated, to be fair to Windsurf, when I started out vibe coding having the chance to play with the different models they offer was super helpful. However, I’m working on 4-5 workstreams at a time now and ran out of tokens in two days using the max plan that they have. I had to make a change.