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47251900 comment kamranjon 1772649615 Absolutely. So my codebase is huge, it&#x27;s a monolith. But my work is in very specific parts of the codebase, I don&#x27;t pull the entire code base into context (and I don&#x27;t think that is common practice even with claude) - I start at a specific point with a specific task and work with the agent to achieve something clearly defined, for example writing tests, extracting things into separate files, refactoring or even scaffolding a new feature. You have to periodically start new threads, because you&#x27;ll start hitting the limits of the context, but I max it out at over 200k because I have the memory overhead on my 128gb mbp to do that, so I can get quite a lot done.<p>I really recommend trying the Qwen models - 3 coder next is really incredible. GLM 4.7 flash is also incredibly performant on modest hardware. Important things to consider is setting the temperature and top_p and top_k values etc based on what is recommended by the provider of the model - a thing as simple as that could result in a huge difference in performance.<p>The other big leap for me was switching to Zed editor and getting its agent stuff just seamlessly integrated. If you run LM Studio on your local machine it&#x27;s super easy and even setting it up on a remote machine and calling out to LM Studio is dead simple. 0 47250270           0     1774132559484
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