Claude Code vs. Devin (& Devin Desktop, formerly Windsurf)

Whenever I have a bug or something to solve from Jira, I give Claude an explanation and the Jira ticket and it ultimately solves the problem and can commit my code to github. It's a powerful tool and asks me clarifying questions when they are needed to best suit the needs of my requirements

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If you already have technical knowledge and understanding of coding, Windsurf could be a valuable platform to debug and rewrite code. It was helpful to me to expand coding, since I am not a traditionally programmer. I was able to enhance my base code and functionality much quicker than manually trying.

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• Quick code isolation of sytax errors
• quick suggestions on how to correct coding error

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• Windsurf is target to more medium to advanced users
• Windsurf does fast debugging, but technical skills are needed.
• Windsurf is not as intuitive as I initially thought.

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It is only keyboard accessible but very usable.

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Windsurf is a good tool for developers with more than basic coding skills. I would recommend it as a tool to quickly mitigate coding errors and issues. I did not take a deeper dive into the integrated extensions, but the library of extensions appear to be solid. An experience developer could quickly launch this platform, scan and test coding, and resolve issues quickly. I did not test this for larger code sets.

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It out shines them, Anthropic Claude is a close second since it does a very similar job. I mostly use that in Visual Studio Code. Github Copilot uses Claude but I feel like the terminal and/or Anthropic Claude is superior to this. I am a GUI guy but the terminal has features that can't be replicated anywhere else.

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Windsurf would be more comparable to GitHub Copilot or Perplexity to me. I think it's more of a pure code debugging line by line than some of the other tools listed above, however, they all have some capabilities to rewrite and test new coding. It boils down to what toolset you are most comfortable with. I typically will work with two platforms with the same issue to see how it is approached and the differences.

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• ROI is significant time saved from debugging, rewriting code, and testing
• AI generated development can test executable code in a controlled environment

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