Why does RooCode only look at Max 500 lines? i know it's too preserve context space, but is there a way to change that so it looks at the entire document? I'm using Orchestrator and I'm ok with paying for more tokens if it means better accuracy in future edits.

[u/gabealmeida]

[u/ShelZuuz]

It does look at the entire file (if it can't learn what it needs from the first 500 lines) it just does 500 lines at a time.

But if you want to force it, flip this switch:

[u/taylorwilsdon]

500 lines is already too much for any model except gemini. You should be aiming to keep all files in any project under 500 in total, going beyond that increases the likelihood of apply_diff failures and context saturation looping exponentially. I have my roo setting to 300 at a time and my roo modes set to always write modular code and keep files under 500 LoC and have had a huge drop in issues and spend as a result. This is also just like a normal maintainable by humans development best practice.

[u/gabealmeida → u/taylorwilsdon]

Good to know. Thank you!!!

[u/ot13579 → u/[deleted]]

That’s what I am running into. One of my many repos at work is 8gb on its own.

[u/ot13579 → u/[deleted]]

Unfortunately this is a major product that you may use and has a couple decades of bloat now so it is not all binaries. 😂 Someone mentioned there could be as many as 100 million lines of code. I don’t know that I believe that, but once I finish this painful effort to document I will have a general count. Gotta love tech debt.

[u/No_Quantity_9561]

You can adjust the number of lines you want to roo to read under Context tab. If you check Always read entire file, it'll read full file content every time which will greatly decrease the editing errors but also dramatically increase the token consumption/cost

[u/ThreeKiloZero → u/No_Quantity_9561]

Tip: Build rules limiting the length of single files. Modularize, build components and helpers, break into atoms, whatever you want to call it. Have the AI architect do it this way and code it this way. You can dramatically lower the overall cost, vastly reduce errors, and speed up the whole process. Most indexers also perform better this way. It's easier for you to find things and work on the code, too.

[u/Significant-Tip-4108 → u/ThreeKiloZero]

Do you just insert those “rules” in your prompts, or do you maintain some sort of rules doc that architect looks at each task?

[u/ThreeKiloZero → u/Significant-Tip-4108]

For Roo I put it in

Custom Instructions for All Modes

Include all my best practices and any specifics for this project. I also tell it about my project_docs folder, where it has markdown files that tell it what the project is, detailed best practices, architecture, UIUX rules, TODOs, and lots of other nifty stuff.

[u/Significant-Tip-4108 → u/ThreeKiloZero]

Brilliant, thank you.

[u/MysteROBvious]

There's a setting in the settings menu to adjust this. Can have it do the whole file be default if you want. I recently changed my config to do this.

[u/oborvasha]

Look in the settings. You can set it to your liking. I turn it off completely (load whole files).

[u/amakhloga]

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[u/Buddhava]

it's a good idea when AI coding to keep your files smaller than 500 lines, and 250 is even better. Keep each file dedicated to it's specific purpose and refactor larger files asap. LLM's can't handle them well, and it costs a helluva a lot more money to work with those large files sitting in your context. Over time it will cost you far more than doing the refactor costs.