--- title: Best Windsurf posts of 2025 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Windsurf posts of 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/windsurf/best-of/2025 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/windsurf/best-of/2025 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Windsurf posts of 2025 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Windsurf posts of 2025, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Windsurf — 2025 1. 1 [](/posts/agentic-ai-has-changed-my-career-cdv7zgruq "Agentic AI has changed my career") Article Tech Lead Digest · 1y Agentic AI has changed my career A director at Skydio shares how AI-powered coding tools transformed him from a non-coding manager into one of the company's top contributors. Starting with basic AI-assisted coding at 0.5x speed, he progressed through multiple workspaces and context optimization to reach 10x productivity using agentic AI. The approach involves automated workflows, GitHub integrations, and browser automation that enable non-developers to contribute code changes directly to production systems. 51 6 2. 2 [](/posts/three-weeks-after-acquiring-windsurf-cognition-offers-staff-the-exit-door-iyan5cwfs "Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door") Article TechCrunch · 1y Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door Cognition laid off 30 employees and offered buyouts to remaining Windsurf staff just three weeks after acquiring the AI coding startup. The buyout includes nine months of salary, while employees who stay must work 80+ hour weeks and six days in office. This follows a turbulent period for Windsurf, which nearly got acquired by OpenAI before losing key leadership to Google in a $2.4 billion reverse-acquihire deal. The situation suggests Cognition was primarily interested in Windsurf's intellectual property rather than its talent. 30 3 3. 3 [](/posts/introducing-swe-1-5-our-fast-agent-model-i8djshxop "Introducing SWE-1.5: Our Fast Agent Model") Article Windsurf · 50w Introducing SWE-1.5: Our Fast Agent Model Windsurf releases SWE-1.5, a frontier-size AI model with hundreds of billions of parameters optimized for software engineering tasks. The model achieves near state-of-the-art coding performance while delivering inference speeds up to 950 tokens per second through a partnership with Cerebras—6x faster than Haiku 4.5 and 13x faster than Sonnet 4.5\. Trained on real-world coding scenarios with input from senior engineers, SWE-1.5 focuses on writing clean, maintainable code and integrates tightly with Windsurf's agent experience. The model excels at exploring large codebases, full-stack development, and infrastructure work, reducing task completion times from 20+ seconds to under 5 seconds. 29 1 4. 4 [](/posts/windsurf-wave-13-merry-shipmas-0p3ggqetn "Windsurf Wave 13: Merry Shipmas") Article Windsurf · 42w Windsurf Wave 13: Merry Shipmas Windsurf Wave 13 introduces parallel agents for concurrent task execution, Git worktrees support, multi-pane Cascade interface, a dedicated terminal, and SWE-1.5 Free tier. These updates enhance the AI-powered coding assistant's capabilities for managing complex development workflows. 24 1 5. 5 [](/posts/gpt-5-2-is-now-available-in-windsurf--kncpl8eb4 "GPT 5.2 is now available in Windsurf!") Article Windsurf · 43w GPT 5.2 is now available in Windsurf! GPT-5.2 is now available in Windsurf for 0x credits (limited time for paid and trial users). This release represents the biggest leap in intelligence for GPT models in agentic coding since GPT-5, positioning it as the state-of-the-art coding model at its price point and making it the default model in Windsurf. 17 1 [See all Windsurf archives](/tags/windsurf/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/tags/windsurf/best-of/2025#page","url":"https://daily.dev/tags/windsurf/best-of/2025","name":"Best Windsurf Posts of 2025","description":"The most upvoted Windsurf posts of 2025, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/tags/windsurf/best-of/2025#items","numberOfItems":5,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/agentic-ai-has-changed-my-career-cdv7zgruq","name":"Agentic AI has changed my career"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/three-weeks-after-acquiring-windsurf-cognition-offers-staff-the-exit-door-iyan5cwfs","name":"Three weeks after acquiring Windsurf, Cognition offers staff the exit door"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/introducing-swe-1-5-our-fast-agent-model-i8djshxop","name":"Introducing SWE-1.5: Our Fast Agent Model"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/windsurf-wave-13-merry-shipmas-0p3ggqetn","name":"Windsurf Wave 13: Merry Shipmas"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/gpt-5-2-is-now-available-in-windsurf--kncpl8eb4","name":"GPT 5.2 is now available in Windsurf!"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Tags","item":"https://daily.dev/tags"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Windsurf","item":"https://daily.dev/tags/windsurf"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/tags/windsurf/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"2025"}]}]} ```