Articles and videos
- Using Code Syntax Parsing for Generative AI by and (15 March 2023) ► Codeium has created and open-sourced a tool to query syntax tree built with Tree-sitter.
- Be Careful Where you Send Your Code🚫 by (30 March 2023) ► If you want to keep your code private, deploy your tools on premise. This is why Codeium proposes an Enterprise offering.
- Why You Should Not Trust All the Numbers You See by , , and (3 October 2023) ► A critique of the metrics provided by Codeium’s competitors and how Codeium evaluates its product.
- Codeium Brings VS Codium AI Powers (3 November 2023) ► Codeium plugins are now available in the OpenVSX registry.
- Codeium Command (13 November 2023) ► Codeium adds a mechanism to explicitly ask to generate code.
- Introducing Codeium Live: Free, Forever Up-to-Date In-Browser Chat by (16 November 2023) ► A chat answering questions on recent versions of some libraries.
- GitHub Copilot’s Security Filters Don’t Work (22 November 2023) ► Demonstrating that GitHub Copilot’s claims to filter out unsafe code are bullshit.
- Code Suggestion Attribution (6 December 2023) ► A description of how Codeium handles code licences: filter out code that is explicitly non-permissively licensed from training data, attribution of generated code…
- Prototype Capabilities by and (12 December 2023) ► A description on how Codeium expects to manage experimental features.
- What We Think of 2023 Q4 AI News (18 December 2023) ► Some comments on GitHub Copilot announcements and its dependency to OpenAI, and further experimentation on the poor efficacy of CodeWhisperer.
- The Effect of Generative AI on the Human-Tool Interface by (19 December 2023) ► The vision of Codeium of how Generative AI helps the user and how this vision shapes the human-tool interface they implement.
- Streamlining AI Code Chat with @ Mentions by (4 January 2024) ► @ Mentions have been improved, but a real documentation of that feature would be helpful.
- Termium: Codeium in the Terminal (10 January 2024) ► The title says it all.
- MongoDB x Codeium (17 January 2024) ► Codeium models have been trained on MongoDB APIs and syntax.
- Latency, the Ultimate Gen AI Constraint↑ by , , , and (18 January 2024) ► Some interesting optimisations implemented by Codeium to reduce latency.
- How Generative AI is Accelerating Software Development w/ Codeium Co-Founder | Technovation 842 by and (1 February 2024) ► An interesting interview of , the CEO of Codeium.
- Remote Indexing and Multi-repository Context Awareness by , , , and (20 February 2024) ► The importance of being able to use whole repositories to find the right context to answer a question or to generate autocompletion, and the new possibility to index these repositories.
- Codeium Passes One Million Downloads (28 February 2024) ► The title says it all.
- Context Pinning by , , and (6 March 2024) ► It is now possible, in VS Code, to pin a context so get more relevant autocompletions or chat answers.
- Better Chat than ChatGPT (1 August 2024) ► A description of the enhancements in the last Codeium release.
- Dream Bigger (13 August 2024) ► A long description of Codeium’s strategy and new products: Cortex/Cascade performs tasks on whole projects by defining a plan and performing each step (all this being modifiable by a human), Forge assists code reviews, and Guidelines for customising Codeium’s tools (currently Forge) for a company specific needs.
- Smart Paste: Effortless Code Translation (21 August 2024) ► Copy in one a language, paste in another one.
- Series C Announcement (31 August 2024) ► Codeium is still performing very well.
- Pro Tier (18 September 2024) ► Codeium is introducing a paying tier for individual users.
- Supercomplete by , , and (14 October 2024) ► A more powerful autocomplete that, as Cursor, can insert at other places than the cursor position.
- The Art of Analytics (23 October 2024) ► A usual, Codeium’s discourse on metrics and analytics is much more evaluable than the bullshit of GitHub ou GitLab.
- Plans and Pricing Updates (6 December 2024) ► Codeium is victim of its success: the Pro Tier gets more expensive, but includes more actions.
- Why Developers Trust Windsurf to Write 90% of Their Code (with Anthropic)↑ (5 April 2025) ► An interesting presentation of Windsurf strategy with little marketing bullshit (especially compared to the current bullshit AI-related tsunami).
- Building Windsurf with Varun Mohan — Varun Mohan, CEO of Windsurf, shares how building an AI-native IDE is reshaping software development—from optimizing LLM latency to enabling non-engineers to ship code. (⧉) by and (7 May 2025) ► Some information about Windsurf, the company and the IDE, and some musing on the impact of AI on developers.
- Self-Hosted Deployment Maintenance Mode (12 May 2025) ► Windsurf stops its self-hosted offering and replaces it with new single-tenant hosted offering.
- OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google — Key researchers from the AI coding startup are also heading to Google. (11 July 2025) ► The title and subtitle say it all.
- ↪The Next Stage of Windsurf (11 July 2025) ► The official announcement.
- The Next Chapter by (14 July 2025) ► Cognition is buying Windsurf‽⸘
- ↪Cognition | Windsurf by and (14 July 2025) ► The corresponding video.
- Google, OpenAI, Chaos: Inside Windsurf's $3B Deal Implosion (72 hrs) by (15 July 2025) ► The story of Windsurf and, in particular, the last weekend.
- Introducing SWE-1.5: Our Fast Agent Model by (29 October 2025) ► Some notes about Cognition’s new model.
- Windsurf Arena Mode Leaderboard: The People Want Speed (11 February 2026) ► The first results from Windsurf’s new Arena Mode.
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- Windsurf Launch (13 November 2024) ► Codeium is proposing it owns IDE, yet another VS Code fork.
- Codeium's Windsurf : This NEW & FULLY FREE AI Editor BEATS CURSOR! by (14 November 2024) ► is discovering Codeium…
- Windsurf Editor TUTORIAL // Better than Cursor? (yes) by (20 November 2024) ► A presentation of Windsurf by someone who discovered it recently.
- Windsurf (Upgraded) : This is The BEST AI Editor Right Now! (NEW Image Upload, Keybindings & More!)↓ by (1 December 2024) ► There is almost no new information in this video, except for the possibility to add images in the prompt.
- Windsurf Wave 1 (11 December 2024) ► Windsurf 1.1 adds the possibility of defining global and workspace rules, and to customise terminal commands not requiring approval.
- Innovation, not Productivity: Why we Built Windsurf (19 December 2024) ► Codeium explains that AI code assistants are not only about developer productivity: more persons can produce applications while not being developers, people can work on code bases they do not master…
- Windsurf Wave 2 (17 January 2025) ► Web search, automated memories, terminal integration, and problem tab integration.
- ↪Windsurf Wave 2 Update: Web Search, Autogenerated Memories, and More by (17 January 2025) ► The corresponding video.
- Turn Blog Post Tutorials into Full-Stack Applications Automatically - Windsurf Editor (23 January 2025) ► A demo of generating code from a blog post.
- Save Time and Flow Action Credits with Cascade Autogenerated Memories - Windsurf Editor by (26 January 2025) ► Cascade is now able to decide by itself to add data in its memory. But it is unclear when it does so. I guess you will have some feelings about its behaviour by using it.
- Spend Less Time Approving with Automated Command - Windsurf Editor↓ by (28 January 2025) ► This demo of automated command, where you can allow Cascade to execute safe commands without asking for approval, is unclear.
- Windsurf Now Supports OpenAI's o3-mini! by (31 January 2025) ► The title says it all.
- DeepSeek R1 and OpenAI o3-mini now available in Windsurf (31 January 2025) ► The title says it all.
- Windsurf Next Launch (5 February 2025) ► Codeium now provides a beta version of Windsurf.
- Windsurf Wave 3 Updates: Tab to Jump, MCP, Custom App Icons, Turbo Mode & More by , , , and (13 February 2025) ► The title says it all.
- Windsurf Wave 3 (13 February 2025) ► The same.
- A Beginner's Guide to using MCP in Windsurf! by (18 February 2025) ► An explanation on how to use MCP.
- Windsurf Wave 4 Updates: Preview, Tab to Import, Suggested Actions & More (5 March 2025) ► Preview, tab-to-import, suggested actions, auto-fixing lint violations, easier MCP configuration, referral program, drag ’n drop files, improved tool support in Sonnet 3.7…
- Windsurf Wave 4 (5 March 2025) ► The same.
- Windsurf Previews: Streamline UI Iteration & Debugging by (12 March 2025) ► Preview a Web App in Windsurf so an HTML element can be added to the context and Windsurf can access the error messages in the console to debug the App.
- Windsurf Wave 5 (14 March 2025) ► Codeium merges the tab features (complete, super-complete, jump, import) into a single feature having a larger context: text editor, terminal, dialog, and clipboard.
- Windsurf Wave 5: Windsurf Tab by (18 March 2025) ► The same.
- Windsurf Wave 6 (2 April 2025) ► One-click deployment on Netlify, commit message generation, easier navigation of the chat history, improved long chats, more information pushed in the Tab context…
- Windsurf Wave 6 Update: Deploy, Commit Message Generation, Jupyter Notebook Support And More (2 April 2025) ► The same.
- Windsurf Wave 7 (9 April 2025) ► Cascade is now integrated in JetBrains IDEs.
- Windsurf Wave 7: Cascade On Jetbrains by (9 April 2025) ► The same.
- OpenAI's GPT-4.1 Available On Windsurf! by (14 April 2025) ► Windsurf integrates GPT 4.1 and gives it for free for one week.
- Day 1 of Windsurf Wave 8: Windsurf Reviews, Knowledge Base, Conversation Sharing & More (6 May 2025) ► Code reviews, conversation sharing, interrogating Google Docs, deploying in Netlify team, and analytics.
- ↪Day 2 of Windsurf Wave 8: Custom Workflows, Multiple Cascades, File-Based Rules & More (7 May 2025) ► Custom workflows, granular rules files, simultaneous cascades, and improved MCP support.
- ↪Day 3 of Windsurf Wave 8: JetBrains & UX Updates (8 May 2025) ► UX improvements: model selector, edit proposed terminal command, opening conversations switches to the corresponding workspace, improved commit messages…
- Windsurf Wave 9: Introducing SWE-1, Our Frontier Models by (15 May 2025) ► Windsurf proposes a new family of models for handling the whole software engineering process.
- SWE-1: Our First Frontier Models (15 May 2025) ► More information about the models and Windsurf’s strategy.
- An Inflection Point for U.S. Government (29 May 2025) ► Windsurf explains what they are the best option for federal agencies and regulated industries.
- Statement on Anthropic Model Availability (3 June 2025) ► Windsurf has some problems with Anthropic, I guess this is related to being bought by OpenAI.
- Windsurf Wave 10 – Day 1: Planning Mode by (10 June 2025) ► Cascade is now able to define and to maintain a plan of the tasks to be done.
- ↪Wave 10: Planning Mode (10 June 2025) ► A much more detailed and informative description of Windsurf’s vision on supporting long-term plan.
- ↪Windsurf Wave 10 – Day 2: Windsurf Browser by (11 June 2025) ► Windsurf now provides a Browser in order to provide context to Cascade more easily.
- ↪Wave 10: The Windsurf Browser (11 June 2025) ► Windsurf explains why they now deliver their own Chrome fork.
- ↪Windsurf Wave 10 - Day 3: Enterprise + UX Updates by and (13 June 2025) ► Update of Percentage of Code Written, European cluster, coloured code suggestion, access to past conversation from the current one, file-based icons, interaction with suggested command terminals, and removal of legacy mode.
- ↪Wave 10: Other Announcements (12 June 2025) ► The same.
- Percentage of Code Written (13 June 2025) ► Some thoughts about the advantages and caveats of the PCW metric.
- How to Use MCP Servers in Windsurf AI (Becoming 10x Developer) — Unlock MCP servers in Windsurf AI with this 2025 tutorial—step-by-step setup, real-world uses, and pro tips for seamless coding flow! by (26 June 2025) ► A very basic introduction on using MCP in Windsurf, without a single advice on security.
- Windsurf Wave 11: Voice, Deeper Browser Integrations, JetBrains Improvements and More by and (17 July 2025) ► Voice support, referencing past conversations and Browser tabs, planning mode is now the default, conversations checkpoints…
- ↪Wave 11: Just Keep Shipping (17 July 2025) ► The same.
- OpenAI's GPT-5 out now on Windsurf! by and (7 August 2025) ► Windsurf gets GPT-5 support as soon as this one is released. OpenAI explains their goals were personality, intelligence, and steerability. They give examples of how steerable it is.
- Windsurf Wave 12: Devin features in Windsurf! by , , , , , , , and (14 August 2025) ► DeepWiki, Vibe and Replace, automated use of planning mode, better use of models having long context, improved Tab, improved UI, bug fixes, and dev container support.
- ↪Windsurf Wave 12: Devin features in Windsurf (14 August 2025) ► The same.
- Windsurf Queued Messages Release (16 September 2025) ► You can now queue prompts while Windsurf is processing the current one.
- Windsurf now supports Claude Sonnet 4.5! by (29 September 2025) ► The title says it all.
- Introducing SWE-grep and SWE-grep-mini: RL for Multi-Turn, Fast Context Retrieval by , , , , , , and (16 October 2025) ► A description, with some technical details of the training, of SWE-grep and SWE-grep-mini, two models focused on finding the relevant context as fast as possible in the code base.
- Windsurf Codemaps: Understand Code, Before You Vibe It (4 November 2025) ► Cognition introduces Codemaps, but this article gives little information about its use, it is mostly marketing speech.
- Windsurf Wave 13: Merry Shipmas — Wave 13: Shipmas - Parallel Agents, Git Worktrees, and Near-Frontier Coding Performance For Free With SWE-1.5 (24 December 2025) ► Cognition delivers at last a new wave. The subtitle says it all.
- Wave 14: Arena Mode - May the Best Model Win (30 January 2026) ► A long description of the integration of an arena mechanism in Windsurf, which does not seem that interesting for me, and a short presentation of the plan mode, which is probably more impactful on how to use Windsurf.
- Windsurf Tab v2: 25-75% more accepted code with Variable Aggression (3 February 2026) ► The guys from Cognition are badmouthing the former Windsurf team and explain that they improved Tab completion/navigation.