alt Hacker NewsSince I'm yet to seriously dive into vibe coding or AI-assisted coding, does the IDE experience offer tracking a tally of the context size? (So you know when you're getting close or entering the "dumb zone")?
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MikeNotThePope • today at 2:56 AM
The 2 I know, Cursor and Claude Code, will give you a percentage used for the context window. So if you know the size of the window, you can deduce the number of tokens used.
8note • today at 3:00 AM
Cline gives you such a thing. you dont really know where the dumb zone by numbers though, only by feel.
stevula • today at 2:08 AM
Most tools do, yes.
quux • today at 2:09 AM
OpenCode does this. Not sure about other tools
nujabe • today at 2:10 AM
> Since I'm yet to seriously dive into vibe coding or AI-assisted coding
Unless you’re using a text editor as an IDE you probably have already
In Claude code I believe it's /context and it'll give you a graphical representation of what's taking context space