Saturday, August 16, 2025

This major IDE just got a massive AI upgrade

This is incredible.

Windsurf just pushed several amazing upgrades to their IDE with their new Wave 12 update.

They recently got acquired by the company behind Devin -- the incredible coding agent that called itself, "The first AI software engineer".

And now with Wave 12, they've brought several features from Devin that made it so powerful and popular, to Windsurf.

These features will help us build much faster, making greater impacts with our codebase and focusing on what matters.

Less time spent on repetitive, mundane, low-level changes, and more on high-level thinking and design.

Incredible new "DeepWiki"

This amazing new feature helps you understand unfamiliar parts of a codebase much easier and faster.

Ever hovered over a function and thought, what the hell does this thing actually do?

Now when you Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + Click on any symbol, Windsurf brings up DeepWiki — an AI-generated breakdown of what that symbol is, how it fits into the bigger picture, and even a summary of its behavior.

But it doesn't end there: you can then feed that explanation directly into Cascade, so the agent understands your code at the same level you now do. It's like giving your copilot context without typing a word.

Everything is connected.

Will make it much easier to work on a new codebase and collaborate with others.