I have been using Windsurf for a few months and ChatGPT for a couple of years. I don't feel Windsurf is a massive game changer personally. It is good if you are very tired or working in a new area (also good for exploring UI ideas as the feedback loop is tight), but still not a real game changer over ChatGPT. Waiting around for it to do its thing ("we've encountered at error - no credits used") is boring and flow destroying. Of you know exactly what you are doing the productivity is probably 0.5 vs just typing the code in yourself. Sorry, I'm not going to bang around in Windsurf all day just to help with the training so that "v2" can be better. They should be paying me for this realistically.

Of course, in aggregate AI makes me capable in a far broader set of problem domains. It would be tough to live without it at this stage, but needs to be used for what it is actually good at, not what we hope it will be good at.