Shakespeare is cool but it always ran up a bill for me too. I've used it to get some base code before then switch to cursor or Claude.
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Yeah it’s not configured to pass context correctly. I wish nostr:npub1q3sle0kvfsehgsuexttt3ugjd8xdklxfwwkh559wxckmzddywnws6cd26p would investigate it more closely.
It's not correctness... if it's really so cheap on other software, they're either not doing as much, have a custom solution, or they're footing the bill. Compare Shakespeare's price to Goose.
Nah, there is clearly a bug in how it handles context. It doubles it under certain conditions and that shouldn’t be happening.
Karnage did you see this? If you use Claude through openrouter then at a certain point of context they start charging double. The solution is to reset the chat or use Claude through Shakespeare AI because we prevent that (but we cant control it through other providers)
Even resetting there’s still a bug. I reset every prompt almost. Any time it goes over $5 I’ll reset
Oh wow. What provider and model are you using?
I think there’s a problem where if it doesn’t fix an issue, it takes the entire context of all previous files and adds that to the context window, essentially doubling tokens every time until the next unresolved “oops, I made a mistake”
Here it’s going from 40k tokens to 268k tokens in one second.
Why on earth would it need to do that?
I'm not reproducing that. My guess is it read a giant file and we didn't prevent it from doing so. I'm seeing the mkstack context be at about 16k tokens.
Nothing is hidden from you. Look at your message history.
Did you see the screenshot where it went from 40k to 268k? Does that sound like normal behavior?
Absolutely if you had a file that's 228k tokens long and it used the "view file" tool.
Why would you have a file that big? Does Shakespeare not create smaller sub files and only check for the ones it needs to? This is probably the issue …
It shouldn't. What project was this happening in?
If you’re passing it instructions, it should probably also be to keep things in components and not build giant files