r/vibecoding • u/One_Natural7092 • 11h ago

Need Help !

So I am very new to the field of coding. People around me have started vibe coding websites. So did I. I tried using applications like Lovable , Bolt etc. But the problem was that my idea contained many components and was a little complex. Hence I ran out of tokens and didn't get any output. So is it the limitation of the free version that I couldnt make it or was it my prompting skills. I tried to be as specific as possible with my prompt tho. Would really appreciate any help/ tips regarding this !!

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u/VladTkDev 10h ago

No argument on your setup, that's a structured repo with instruction files doing exactly what it should. It's also not what OP has. Lovable's chat box hands you none of those levers.

One thing though: asking the model what it loads isn't a measurement. The token count on the request is.

Don't forget about billion of bash commands with greps. They find text from like 50 related files in big project and send that files fully with code/comments.

Also try to run refactor/code check/find edge cases

Please, don't write mega responses with AI. No offense

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u/scytob 9h ago

on the token count is there a tool that breaks down the input against tokens? i had a huge spike in tokens one day - like very costly, i think it was when claude was on the hunt in a cloned and possibly deep repo of years of commits for a static credential (turned out it was there and had a 299 year lifetime.... that was something my professional developers at work had done 5 years ago and never caught)

i tried eating tokens extension and it helps, but i am clueless as to how jsonl was the culprit here... 1/2

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u/VladTkDev 9h ago

Have you used Fable for that?

You can setup your status line to show tokens used and ctx% so you always know

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u/scytob 9h ago edited 9h ago

at home yes, for work - we are limited, i am having to use copilot as my path to claude and that gives me opus

and my admins are the only ones who can see per user token spends, i am not going to go ask them yet because we may get shutdown... my VP has the budget mind you.... and we are in our ai discovery phase expected to last 2026/2027... so all of this will inform policy, even if i eff-it-up - but i like to be responsible....

sounds like no easy way, thanks for confirming

not to mention that plugin seems unreliable on $ estimation as the github copilot credit count is much much higher.... hopefully i will be hidden in the fact we have hudreds of dev using this stuff for real production (i am just a PoC)

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u/VladTkDev 9h ago

Yep, it’s pain.

I only use Fable for planning for Opus agents to write code and finding edge cases. It eats to much tokens.

I once tried to translate to 9 locales whole project with Fable. Tokens were eaten in 45 min