alt Hacker News> Filip also told me that he asked Claude to continue on the even case after the odd case had been resolved. “But there after a while it seemed to get stuck. In the end, it was not even able to write and run explore programs correctly anymore, very weird. So I stopped the search.”
Interesting snippet towards the end. I wonder if they were using claude.ai or claude code. Sounds like they ran out of context and entered the "dumb zone."
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joshrw • yesterday at 7:27 PM
Then it needs to do context compacting, otherwise the results become garbage
simianwords • yesterday at 6:26 PM
They mentioned plan document
What would be super cool is if this dumb zone could be quantified and surfaced to the user. I've noticed that copilot now has a little circle graph that indicates context use percentage and it changes color based on percentage. I'll bet these are very naive metrics on used tokens vs context availability. I wonder if there could be meta data streamed or sent along with the tokens that could show that you've entered the dumb zone.