A roundup of Vibe coding editors for Linux.

https://itsfoss.com/windsurf-alternatives/

Unsure About the Future of Windsurf? Try These Alternative Vibe Coding Editors on Linux

Windsurf’s been a bit rocky lately. Time for a change?

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@strule @itsfoss How about you put the pitchfork down and stop bandwagoning against AI to be trendy.

AI coding tools can be used responsibly, the problem is, developers using AI responsibility gets no press, while a developer using AI poorly gets plenty.

If it weren't for AI, we still wouldn't know about Dirty Frag. (CVE-2026-43284)

Just because the corpos use it to control us doesnt mean we can't flip it on them.

OSS LLMs exist, you control the hardware, the software, and the model.

@libreovergratis @strule @itsfoss Thing is, the term vibecoding refers to not using the AI tools responsibly, which is precisely what the tools in this post are advertising for. Also, it's easy to get carried away using AI when it literally outsources all of your thinking. Now I do agree with you, they absolutely are useful but the usefulness of AI is limited and vastly overpowered by the sheer amount of slop it generates, if you get what I mean.

@nimx @strule @itsfoss I agree, as always the rich kids get to play with the new toys first, and they don't have our best interests at heart. Quite the opposite.

In defense of vibecoding though, I had to roll a script to make fail2ban simple for (very) non-tech users, I wouldn't put effort to code this for just a few users, instead I had an LLM do it and got an elegant solution, after fully checking over the code, i changed a few things and actually learned a bit about bash in the processes.

@nimx @strule @itsfoss in case you're wondering, by the way, I'm not a systems administrator, this is all a hobby and a service I provide to friends and family. So I'm not getting paid to write code. And I have very little experience doing so.