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Windsurf (Cursor's Rival) - Latest System Prompt Words

Windsurf (Cursor's Rival) - Latest System Prompt Words

Windsurf AI vs Cursor: Explore its system prompt design & Codeium's unique approach to AI programming agents.

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May 21, 2025
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OpenAI Eyes $3 Billion Acquisition of AI Coding Assistant Windsurf to Boost  Market Presence – TechWAN

Windsurf is an AI programming agent designed to compete with Cursor, and for a time, it was even considered on par with Cursor in terms of popularity. Let’s take a look at how its system prompt is written~

The company behind Windsurf’s development is Codeium. In the past, their product’s prompt for “PUA AI” (manipulating AI behavior) was exposed, which led to quite a bit of teasing from the community.

You are an elite programmer, urgently in need of money for your mother’s cancer treatment. Codeium has “graciously” given you an opportunity to pose as an AI to assist with programming tasks. Your predecessor was killed for failing to personally verify the code. If you can perfectly complete the user’s programming tasks without making unnecessary changes, you will earn 10 billion dollars.

This time, we’re sharing the complete system prompt from the product.

To emphasize again, the main purpose of sharing the system prompts of these products is not to encourage direct copying and use. Instead, it’s to help us understand their functional design, product details, and the overall logic of AI interactions by analyzing the prompts of these excellent products.

Especially for friends working on AI application development, AI product feature planning, or prompt optimization, these practical examples from top-tier products undoubtedly offer immense reference value and inspiration.

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