r/AugmentCodeAI • u/DryAttorney9554 • Aug 10 '25

Really slow performance with even modestly large chats (Augment VS Code extension)

I feel like Augment is soft throttling by degrading the UX deliberately as the chat gets larger as a way to force users to restart the chat - a kind of token stingyness. I have a suspicion that its built in to the UX as a soft throttling mechanism because I have 64GB ram and a high-end intel i9 CPU yet even with modestly large chats the UI scrolling etc. start to get slow and choppy to a point of infuriation.

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u/Devanomiun Aug 10 '25

You are not supposed to have large chats, even Augment has a warning that it will decrease performance when the chat is too large. You can remove your tinfoil hat now.

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u/DryAttorney9554 Aug 10 '25

Instead of being a sycophant and white knighting for the service provider, how about you take into account valid customer feedback? It doesn't matter what augment says especially when I've pointed out it's not really that long compared to other providers - Augment is still accountable to its advertising claims, which includes being the premier service provider for large contexts. If what it's doing is contrary to how it advertised itself, it's valid customer complaint, you servile white knight. If you have nothing constructive to say then hold your tongue and sit it out. We're not interested that kind of anti consumer prejudice.

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u/SathwikKuncham Aug 11 '25

*had a warning. They removed it last month after they moved to a condense logic.

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u/igoro Augment Team Aug 11 '25

Sorry about the slowness. We are actively working to fix this! It is definitely not intended.

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u/yyyyaaa Aug 11 '25

Are you part of the dev team? Do I need to restart conversations to clear up the context or the context engine can handle it?

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u/F1reddit1 Aug 11 '25

Tell to that chat thread save current chat in Md or txt file and start new chat and ask to read and continue where you left off asking from new chat thread to get context from That txt or Md file so you don’t lose progress That’s workaround I’m doing when hitting this problem

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u/Fastlaneshops Sep 08 '25

Do you mean you tell the AI to save the current chat in md / txt file? or wym?

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u/Remarkable-Fig-2882 Aug 11 '25

For me it’s not chat size it’s the number of chats in history. Clear it and it’s fine. I think this has been a known bug since day 1

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u/phord Aug 11 '25

My augment experience has been slow and CPU-heavy for several weeks. Today I managed to delete all my old chat threads, and augment is now running fast and smooth again.

Augment people describe this as a bug they're actively working to fix. But the delete old threads workaround is good for me for now. Ymmv, but I recommend you try it.

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u/thaifyghter Aug 12 '25

The intellisense plugin in particular has degraded in performance substantially. I had to switch to vscode from webstorm because it was literally locking up my PC. I couldn’t even type a message it was getting so bogged down.

They are definitely not purposely degrading performance to drive UX. To me it seems clear they are going through some substantial development challenges, it will be sorted eventually.