At first AI coding felt magical.
Then my repo hit 40+ files.
Windsurf was still useful for:
- rough structure
- brainstorming
- fast UI iteration But Codex became much stronger when:
- files started connecting together
- refactoring affected multiple modules
- cleanup became more important than prototyping My workflow now is usually: Windsurf -> rough prototype Codex -> repo-wide cleanup/refactor Manual testing -> rollback if needed The larger the repo became, the more context management mattered. One thing I learned is that AI coding tools are not really competing only on code generation anymore. They compete on:
- context handling
- repo understanding
- multi-file coordination
- workflow speed I wrote a deeper comparison here: https://review.mssmileenglish.com/comparisons/cursor-vs-windsurf/ https://review.mssmileenglish.com/comparisons/cursor-vs-windsurf/
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