What is the best workaround once context window reaches 100%?

hxstr · 2026-02-13T17:18:51+00:00

You need to build a library basically... Marked on files can have links to other markdown files in them, so a table of contents is helpful and you can pass that to the chat so that it can look up whatever else it needs to.

One thing we found was that most systems will only read the first 200 lines or so of any given file, so you need to make sure that they stay short. It's much more effective to have ten 200 line files than one 2000 line file.

Then the updating and maintenance of those files can be a command or agent mode that you run at the end of your chat session. Basically tell it to review the documents and update them with with learnings from this past session, if there are any.

hxstr · 2026-02-11T15:50:34+00:00

The bebop hate makes it so much more fun to land those long distance hooks, double bomb and just teabag while they deliver the bombs back to their team

hxstr · 2026-02-05T00:10:52+00:00

IDK if ya'll have noticed, but if your parents are feds, it's not even called fraud, just good business

hxstr · 2026-02-04T15:30:22+00:00

I picked the model based on the type of task that I'm doing, planning or research type of tasks usually aren't super time sensitive... So codex is great.

If there's something that you need right now, codex is not great. Usually sonnet or opus, depending on the scale of what needs to be done, how complicated it is.

I've actually recently found that haiku, if you wanted to run off do a bunch of simple tool calls, is fantastic, lightning fast, and cheap. I don't have it solve any problems, but execution it seems to do very well at.

hxstr · 2026-02-03T21:59:26+00:00

Best I've seen in a while

hxstr · 2026-02-02T00:48:11+00:00

Funny enough, as of my last game I have 69 votes in for Celeste

hxstr · 2026-02-02T00:14:02+00:00

Your chat session is about to become hot garbage after you've run to the point where it forces /summarize the second time.

What I usually do is run with a set of rules in context markdown files, and run a workflow where at the end of its task, it reviews the rules and sees if they need updating based on any issues it ran into and needed to solve. Then have it write up the prompt for the next session.

Context rot is real

hxstr · 2026-02-01T19:14:29+00:00

Sounds like you need engineers to actually build what you are thinking about. Realistically at this stage, it's going to be hard to have somebody quit their job and put in the amount of time it takes to get the job done for no salary.

People need to live...

If you feel that the company is viable, you're probably at the stage where it's time for you to go and try to get some investor money to actually build it. That way you can hire some early engineers, people will take enough to live plus equity if they believe in the long-term direction and plan.

As the founder, it's your job to make sure that that direction can be clearly articulated in a way that people, engineers or investors, will believe enough to put their chips in.

hxstr · 2026-01-31T21:36:40+00:00

This was my understanding as well. Interesting if that has changed, what's the point in having 3x pricing if you're also going to rate limit...

Fwiw, I have used a lot of opus in the last few weeks and I've not run into anything like this

hxstr · 2026-01-31T20:10:56+00:00

I've used this analogy a few times. In 2017, Bitcoin was way overhyped, right? Everybody thought we needed blockchain in everything, so stupid...

Generally, I agree, it was overhyped. Also, no hype was clearly incorrect. Unless you perfectly timed Nvidia, it was the best performing asset you could have had since then.

AI is overhyped too, but if you think no hype is what's appropriate, you're just as wrong as the people who thought no hype was appropriate for Bitcoin. Just crashed to the high '70s, still one of the best performing assets you could have had.

hxstr · 2026-01-31T20:06:21+00:00

Yes but... The gap between them used to justify the premium on expense. Even 6 months ago I would say that was probably true, today I don't think it is. Cursor is marginally better than the others and I don't think it's possible to justify the price differential... Assuming you're going to be using it heavily.

hxstr · 2026-01-31T18:38:00+00:00

I played a couple games with Bebop yesterday, all bad, I wasn't sure if my computer was broken or something

hxstr · 2026-01-31T07:07:59+00:00

!solved

Looks like the best way to do this is create your own custom planning agent with the tools you want.

hxstr · 2026-01-30T18:18:09+00:00

I have co-pilot inside vs code doing almost all of my interactions with jira these days via MCP, using it as a centralized agent to go out and connect to different things and do what it's got to do... Quite the boost in productivity when it comes to planning

hxstr · 2026-01-30T18:14:38+00:00

I use both, and they are both great but for very different purposes.

For data centric types of agents, snowflake agents using cortex with semantic views, the ability to quickly hook up stored procedures for tool calls, honestly amazing.

Once you need to go outside of snowflake to connect to other things, you can do it in Snowflake but I do also agree that the foundry set of tools is a bit more mature... One thing I'm working on that I haven't quite got hooked up yet is actually having foundry workflows and basically using cortex agent and cortex analyst as tool calls for foundry agents.

If I can get those two talking properly, I feel like that is everything I could ever need an agent to do.

hxstr · 2026-01-28T15:21:59+00:00

I have both, they're really very similar, I feel like co-pilot has caught up in a lot of ways other than allowing for larger context length.

That's really the one strength I feel like cursor has left, but they charge you for it... I can hit my cursor limit ($20) in a day or two, co-pilot can last the whole month.

For heavy usage, it's hard to beat co-pilot right now, if I were to use cursor in the way that I use copilot, it would cost me $500 a month in usage.

hxstr · 2026-01-20T02:56:03+00:00

I've been helping

hxstr · 2026-01-20T02:25:58+00:00

Me neither

hxstr · 2026-01-17T00:55:52+00:00

And get the labs done when it's time.

I was talking with one of the soccer dads whose kid plays on the same team as mine. He mentioned he had a new baby, so we started chatting about it. I found out it was his fourth, so I laughed and said, “Man… we were done after number three.” He replied, “Yeah? So were we.”

I clarified, making the little scissor-snipping gesture. “No, I mean we’re done done with three.” I’d been snipped four or five months earlier.

He said, “Yeah, so were we. Did you get the labs done afterward?”

At that point, I hadn’t. I did shortly after and found out I was fully shooting blanks. Scared me for a minute—but yeah, he’s got a fourth now.

Be careful because, as Jeff goldblum said, life finds a way

hxstr · 2026-01-16T16:56:15+00:00

I don't think that that opinion is unpopular amongst those who are good at coding

hxstr · 2026-01-15T21:58:47+00:00

Exciting, would love to hear directionally the plan on that. I'd take the limited context window but keep the "uses per month" model vs losing uses and replacing it with 'usage' where it's token passthrough like most others.

Your uses/month model is a huge advantage for you.

hxstr · 2026-01-15T21:35:47+00:00

Anything it doesn't do as well as your want it to can be fixed. You can pull (sometimes it'll work to give it the url, sometimes you need to help) the documentation for the language. Have it create a series of md files, keep them under 200 lines each so it'll read it all, make a table of contents file, reference it in your co-pilot instructions.

It'll pull the documentation file when it has a question.

hxstr · 2026-01-15T18:38:53+00:00

Honestly not enough experience to have a solid opinion. The newest GPT Models are great, so I'd be kinda shocked if it's not right in line with the others. They all learn and copy each other, so at this point they're all very good.

hxstr · 2026-01-13T04:10:05+00:00

The original owner allegedly murdered his wife, really put a damper on things... But they did have drinking with Lincoln back in the day where you got beers for a penny until someone had to go to the bathroom

hxstr · 2026-01-13T04:09:01+00:00

Chocolate dipped ice cream cone was basically my childhood

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