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zomglings | 10 months ago

You can ask it to store its current context to a file, review the file, ask it to emphasize or de-emphasize things based on your review, and then use `/clear`.

Then, you can edit the file at your leisure if you want to.

And when you want to load that context back in, ask it to read the file.

Works better than `/compact`, and is a lot cheaper.

discuss

Wowfunhappy|10 months ago

Neat, thanks, I had no idea!

Edit: It so happens I had a Claude Code session open in my Terminal, so I asked it:

    Save your current context to a file.

Claude produced a 91 line md file... surely that's not the whole of its context? This was a reasonably lengthy conversation in which the AI implemented a new feature.

zomglings|10 months ago

What is in the file?

datavirtue|10 months ago

Compared to my experience with the free GitHub Copilot in VS Code it sounds like you guys are in a horse and buggy.

shmoogy|10 months ago

I'm excited for the improvements they've had recently but I have better luck with Cline in regular vs code, as well as cursor.

I've tried Claude code this week and I really didn't like it - Claude did an okay job but was insistent on deleting some shit and hard coding a check instead of an actual conditional. It got the feature done in about $3, but I didn't really like the user experience and it didn't feel any better than using 3.7 in cursor.