Small correction on my own post: I just went back and measured things properly and… I was way off.
The codebase isn’t ~30k lines anymore – it’s around 223k lines of code, plus about 243k lines of Markdown (research notes, design docs, experiment logs, etc.). So the “large system + context window” pain I’m describing is happening at a significantly bigger scale than I initially claimed.
Which also explains why I’ve become slightly obsessed with measurement, contracts, and forcing everything through text before letting the “programmer” AI touch the code.
The codebase isn’t ~30k lines anymore – it’s around 223k lines of code, plus about 243k lines of Markdown (research notes, design docs, experiment logs, etc.). So the “large system + context window” pain I’m describing is happening at a significantly bigger scale than I initially claimed.
Which also explains why I’ve become slightly obsessed with measurement, contracts, and forcing everything through text before letting the “programmer” AI touch the code.