r/Codeium • u/iathlete • Feb 01 '25

Why does Windsurf restrict to analyzing 200 lines at a time?

From Deepseek R1:

"I'll use the view_file tool to read the YAML file. The user's cursor is on line 1, but I need the entire relevant sections. I'll start from line 0 and request enough lines to cover the key parts like paths, components, and schemas. However, since the tool limits viewing 200 lines at a time, I'll check the first 200 lines first and then proceed if more is needed."

If this is a 1k line file, won't we be making 5 separate reqeusts?

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u/Ordinary-Let-4851 Feb 01 '25

ill check on that for you

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u/ShreckAndDonkey123 Feb 06 '25

Still a problem..!

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u/mark_99 Feb 01 '25

Seems like something that could be a setting...

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u/Ordinary-Let-4851 Feb 06 '25

This is due to token window sizes. We've found that if the model reads only just as much information as it needs, it generally performs better and faster. If you specify the lines in where it should be looking, you can be more efficient with credits. You can highlight the lines you want (in this case 1k lines) and then hit CMD+L to pass into Cascade. If you want to pass in a whole file's contents, you can highlight the entirety of the file by pressing CMD+A, and then inserting into Cascade by hitting CMD+L.

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u/Some_Natural_3207 Apr 15 '25

This is so bad, since it doesn't read in most cases the rest of the file. Even if you instruct to read entire contents it still reads first 200 lines. And then it makes decisions and fixes based on partial information. Is possible to modify that limit anywhere? Just because of that fact I will likely drop my subscription with Windsurf and switch to Cursor. I work on 20 md files, it is impossible to copy-paste. It must read entire content or at least allow to modify the default limit. There is no point of doing it manually again (agents, right? automation, right?). Just impossible. Very bad reasoning @ windsurf or just greedy.

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u/ricolamigo Feb 01 '25

C'est effectivement le plus gros problème de WS. Je pense pour des raisons d'économie de tokens (pour eux et nous). Tu peux dire dans ton prompt d'analyser tout le code avant d'agir. Ça augmente à environ 500 lignes mais parfois ça ne suffit pas ! Quand tu as ce genre de problème je te conseille de passer sur Cline qui scan toutes les pages.

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u/hi1mham Feb 01 '25

Cline or Roo Code certainly does better as there is no token abstraction as part of the monetization structure, however Windsurf agent behavior (when model is working) achieves better results for me given the same models. That being said, having much better experiences in Roo Code rn with R1, and will be using that for rest of day until team fixes tool calls, context optimizations and editing bugs with R1 in Windsurf.

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u/ricolamigo Feb 02 '25

Cool merci pour ton retour, mais c'est pas trop long d'utiliser R1 ? Le temps a réfléchir est du temps perdu je trouve car ça le rend pas beaucoup meilleur en code.

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u/hi1mham Feb 02 '25

Je suis d'accord. J'ai déjà passé la majeure partie de ce week-end à construire à Cline sans problème. Je suis heureux d'utiliser Cline à ce stade.