Tell HN: Windsurf edits are failing and burning infinite credits for most users

[bluelightning2k]

If you look at Windsurf's discord, redit etc. you will see that there's a flood of users saying that the edit tool simply fails.

The agent then retries repeatedly until you stop it, consuming credits as it goes.

To mitigate: some users have suggested telling the AI to only ever make one edit per tool call can help. The theory here is that the edit tool itself has a concurrency bug and Claude 3.7 tries to do simultaneous edits with their system prompt.

Regardless - if you're a Windsurf user it is NOT just you and REALLY pay attention to credit consumption, many reports suggest it will just keep trying and charging.

[teddyX]

Windsurf doesn’t work 40% of the time while still eating up flow credits

Starting to feel very scammy

[wardnath → teddyX]

yes, pricing model feels like a gaming arcade eating quarters.

[phantompeace]

I’ve experienced this with Sonnet 3.7. My credits drained in 2-3 days I think, leaving me to be sad for the rest of this month.

[mazzadev]

Same issue here on my side

[bluelightning2k → mazzadev]

I think we as a community should seriously call out companies when they have a status page and refuse to update it to reflect outages just to cheat on their uptime stats