[jumperabg]

This is quite a lot of code to handle in 1 file. The recommendation is actually good in the past(month - feels like 1 year of planning) I've made similar mistakes with tens of projects - having files larger than 500-600 lines of code - Claude was removing some of the code and I didn't have coverage on some of them and the end result was missing functionality.

Good thing that we can use .cursorrules so this is something that partially will improve my experience - until a random company releases the best AI coding model that runs on a Rassbery Pi with 4GB ram(yes this is a spoiler from the future).

[maeln]

> I've made similar mistakes with tens of projects - having files larger than 500-600 lines of code

Is it a mistake though ? Some of the best codebase I worked on were a few files with up to a few thousands LoC. Some of the worst were the opposite, thousands of files with less than a few hundred LoC in each of them. With the tool that I use, I often find navigating and reading through a big file much simpler than having to have 20 files open to get the full picture of what I am working on.

At the end of the day, it is a personal choice. But if we have to choose something we find inconvenient just to be able to fit in the context window of an LLM, then I think we are doing things backward.

[johnisgood]

Claude seems to be somewhat OK with 1500 LOC in one file. It may miss something, mess something up, sure, that is why you should chunk it up.

[davidwritesbugs]

I'm using Cursor & Claude/R1 on a file with 5000 loc, seems to cope OK