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")?

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jfim 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

In Claude code I believe it's /context and it'll give you a graphical representation of what's taking context space

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MikeNotThePope 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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.

	▲	brookst an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Claude code also gives you a granular breakdown of what’s using context window (system prompt, tools, conversation history, etc). /context

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8note 10 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Cline gives you such a thing. you dont really know where the dumb zone by numbers though, only by feel.

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stevula 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Most tools do, yes.

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quux 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

OpenCode does this. Not sure about other tools

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nujabe 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> 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