Mastering Windsurf AI: Top 3 Tips for Better Development & Learning

Showing some of the hacks that I use to get better alignment between the AI and myself and learning something while doing so. Resources mentioned ---------- 1. [Bolt](http://bolt.new/) 2. [Why AI is making software dev skills more valuable, not less](https://youtu.be/FXjf9OQGAlY?si=-j4p6dJ6a1FRiwyW) 3. [Windsurf](https://codeium.com/windsurf) 4. [Railway](https://railway.app/) Chapters ---------- 00:00 Intro 00:27 Four takeaways 00:40 Point of reference: Bolt 02:20 On the importance of staying in the driver seat when coding with AI 03:58 Why I like Windsurf 05:10 The hacks I use in Windsurf (works for any AI code editor/model) 06:17 Hack #1: ask for a game plan you can discuss 07:45 Hack #2: ask for not destroying working code 08:31 Hack #3: ask for persisting the aligned game plan 11:51 Hack #4: ask for persisting learning content 15:55 Outro Hope you got something out of it and catch you in the next one 🙂✌️ #coding #aicoding #windsurf #ai #prompting #promptengineering #python