| So I'm currently using windsurf IDE in order to work on a large variety of projects, particularly including using it to actually do repairs on the local file system, which is a sort of unofficial off-label application for an agentic code editor, but I find this highly, highly effective. | |
| And the other agent code IDEs which can be used with a cloud LLM might be more cost effective. That's the only problem with Windsurf; especially if you use Sonnet 4, it becomes very expensive very quickly. | |
| I don't think agentic on a local, with a locally run LLM is an option. But it struck me that VS Code can be paired with just about any Cloud LLM, any extension. | |
| Among what's currently out there for agentic assistance, is there any that offers a truly different value proposition to Windsurf in the sense of being really affordable for almost truly unlimited usage? | |
| With Windsurf, it's just the usage caps, as well as the APIs they use frequently seem to run into exhaustion due to the sheer volume of users that they have. |