How do you deal with large files? After about a thousand lines in a file, it starts to cough for me. Forgets that some functions exist and makes up inferior duplicate ones.
I did not experience hallucinations (very rarely if at al) when I use it for programming. It happened more with niche languages (so I provide examples and documentation), and with GPT.
Let us say there is 3k lines of RFCs, API, documentation of niche languages, examples), 2k lines of code generated by Claude (iteratively, starting small), then I do exceed the limit after a while. In that case I ask it to summarize everything in detail, start a new chat, use those 3k lines and the recent code, and continue ad infinitum.
If possible you need to refactor before getting to that point.
Claude has done a good job refactoring, though I’ve had to tell it to give me a refactor plan upfront in case the conversation limit gets hit. Then in a new chat I tell it which parts of the plan it has already done.
But a larger context/conversation limit is definitely needed because it’s super easy to fill up.
I ask it to cut files up when they get too large, that seems t work pretty well. It is also good at that, but you have to sternly tell it NOT to make any functional changes, otherwise it will and breakage will happen.
Let us say there is 3k lines of RFCs, API, documentation of niche languages, examples), 2k lines of code generated by Claude (iteratively, starting small), then I do exceed the limit after a while. In that case I ask it to summarize everything in detail, start a new chat, use those 3k lines and the recent code, and continue ad infinitum.