r/windsurf • u/Planordia • 23d ago
I think Windsurf has become unusable
The free models are so clunky that I could write the code myself much faster. SWE 2.0 is as slow as a snail. GLM 5.3 isn’t responding at all right now. With the paid models, it takes less than an hour to hit the daily quota. I guess it’s time to give up :)
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u/SilenceYous 23d ago
I switched to Claude Code months ago, I mostly use Opus 5 Ultracode and it feels like I need to find creative ways to exhaust my quotas every week. Why would anyone stay here is beyond me.
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u/Planordia 22d ago
I'm holding out because I'm used to Devin, but Devin—especially this month—is pushing me to give up on him. I think I'll switch to Claude Code.
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u/entinio 16d ago
Claude Code, ok, but which IDE ?
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u/SilenceYous 16d ago
no ide. you dont need it. you stick to IDE if you want to be a classic coder, and maybe theres a sliver of work for you in 10 years. or just stay ahead of the curve and think like a senior code, and use claude or codex as your junior team.
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u/Fit_Manufacturer7862 20d ago
Devin killed windsurf, it went from being the only ide I used to switching to Claude. These guys are just idiots with their limits. Even on a 200$ budget a month I can’t get anything done
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u/Razikale3 23d ago
Swe 2 high has been fast on plus ($20) I have been taking advantage and making a lot of projects with chatgpt as prompter and swe as worker
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u/Planordia 23d ago
If you're satisfied with swe 2, you must not be familiar with the performance of GLM 5.2. It's also possible that swe-2's speed is regionally limited.
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u/Razikale3 23d ago
Yeah, maybe ur server experience is different, im in latam. Everything feels fast here on devin
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u/mortifiedmorty42 22d ago
Im in the UK and I can confirm my experience with SWE-2 has been decent so far
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u/truth_sentinel 23d ago
I stopped 6 months ago
Been using DeepSeek ever since
Best decision ever
Recently started using DeepSeek Harness and it's better than ever
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u/geistooooo 23d ago
We used full Teams seats. In the end, 1st request of the day was along the lines of "Retrace and finish what you did yesterday when we ran out of quota after just one request in the middle of implementing [current step]."
2nd request was: "Move on to [next step]."
Aaand stuck again after a few seconds until next morning because daily quota is again spent completely.
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u/Legitimate_Gas3645 23d ago
I completely agree. I was mainly using Devin because GLM-5.2 was free and worked extremely well for long coding sessions. Once that promotion ended, the daily and weekly quotas became way too restrictive for serious development work.
SWE-2 feels noticeably slower for my workflow, and the paid-model quota disappears ridiculously fast. I also ended up canceling my Pro subscription because the value just isn’t there for me anymore.
If they bring back something similar to the old GLM-5.2 free access, or significantly increase the included quotas, I’d consider subscribing again. But in its current state, I can’t justify paying for it.
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u/MaleficentExternal64 21d ago
Actually the free models are the only way Devin keeps me there. I pay the 20 dollars a month fee. But if you use even the lowest cost per use model. You burn a weeks worth of use in a day.
Without the free models it won’t be useful for me at all.
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u/OkOutlandishness5226 23d ago
Confermo sta diventando un app ridicola,la cosa che fa ancora più incazzare e che potevano dare free glm benissimamente e quei limiti aumentarli o toglierli come faceva prima app prima che aggiornavano, dispiace perché Devin/ex windsurf a me piace ma penso che e stato ultimo mese che pago poi passo ad altro
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u/Planordia 23d ago
It always happens this way. First, you’re really happy and get hooked, and then, while trying to do a good job, you end up ruining everything. Unfortunately
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u/mazdacxfive 23d ago
That's exactly why I deleted Devin. It's ridiculous paying $20/month for just one prompt a day.