Comment by ricksunny
11 hours ago
Since 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")?
11 hours ago
Since 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")?
In Claude code I believe it's /context and it'll give you a graphical representation of what's taking context space
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.
Claude code also gives you a granular breakdown of what’s using context window (system prompt, tools, conversation history, etc). /context
Cline gives you such a thing. you dont really know where the dumb zone by numbers though, only by feel.
Most tools do, yes.
OpenCode does this. Not sure about other tools
> 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