The best features Windsurf offers include code line suggestions through auto-completion and the coding agent, which tends to understand the whole codebase, which is a great point. Its speed is also good when compared to some of the other tools in the same category.
The coding agent understanding my whole codebase helps me day-to-day because if we need a feature done quickly, its understanding really helps. I only have to give it a minimal prompt, and it understands how things are done around here and just does it. Without that kind of understanding, I would need to mention the helper functions, models, repositories, and other details, but because it understands, it can pick how to do the work correctly without being incompatible with the other code.
Windsurf has positively impacted my organization by increasing productivity. Once we started using these AI-powered IDEs and code editors, our daily number of commits, the amount of code pushed daily, and release speeds have gone up at least by 200%. Developers can now work on a lot of business logic in a single day because of these AI agents, which has fastened our release cycles and improved our product performance.
The increase in release speeds and the amount of code pushed daily has gone up by 200% based on the number of commits and the amount of features we complete within a single release cycle.