Windsurf (by Codeium) is an AI IDE that competes directly with Cursor. Its key differentiator is Cascade, an agentic system designed around "flows", coherent multi-step coding sessions where the agent understands and remembers what it has done across many tool calls, rather than treating each interaction as isolated.

Cascade: The Core Agent

Cascade has simultaneous awareness of:

• Your…

Cursor is a fork of VS Code that reimagines the editor as an AI-native environment. While GitHub Copilot adds AI as a plugin to existing editors, Cursor was built from the ground up with AI as a first-class participant, not an afterthought.

Core Features

• Tab completion, predicts multi-line, multi-cursor edits based on recent changes and file context
• Cmd+K inline editing, select code,…