Way Enough

But the issue that they will inevitably run into with Windsurf is that GPT just isn't the best in class for programming. Everyone who's using Windsurf is almost definitely using Claude or Gemini. Even though the "GPT wrapper" term was always meant as an insult, it is in practice a huge table stakes feature to be able to wrap around many different LLM providers. That flexibility is what allows a company like Windsurf to ride the machine learning wave, buoyed along by everyone else's investments. Cursor really only took off when Claude suddenly got really good at programming, after all. If Windsurf ends up being tied exclusively to GPT, many of its users may leave the platform simply because it is now a worse platform. But if there isn't any vendor lock in, we're back to square one — what is the point?