Comment by consumer451

I am just a muggle, but I have been using Windsurf for months and this is the only way for me to end up with working code.

A significant portion of my prompts are writing and reading from .md files, which plan and document the progress.

When I start a new feature, it begins with: We need to add a new feature X that does ABC, create a .md in /docs to plan this feature. Ask me questions to help scope the feature.

I then manually edit the feature-x.md file, and only then tell the tool to implement it.

Also, after any major change, I say: Add this to docs/current_app_understanding.md.

Every single chat starts with: Read docs/current_app_understanding.md to get up to speed.

The really cool side benefit here is that I end up with solid docs, which I admittedly would have never created in the past.