Claude Code vs Windsurf (Codeium): Which Is Better in 2026?
I've spent the last three months using both tools daily across real projects—a Django monorepo with about 80,000 lines, a React Native app, and some Terraform infrastructure work. Here's what I actually found, not the marketing fluff.
The Quick Overview
Claude Code is Anthropic's terminal-native AI coding agent. It lives in your CLI, reads your entire codebase (up to roughly 150,000 lines per session thanks to its 200k token window).