I’m using Cody regularly and it’s been nothing short of amazing, but with every update it has been getting more and more lag. And by lag I don’t mean the generation speed or answer time, I just mean my whole Vscode comes to a stop whenever I interact with Cody
So opening a Cody chat window means like 5 seconds where I can’t click on anything and my cursor even “hangs” and jumps around.
Then once the chat window opens, same thing, the chat window hangs while it autofills the text input with the context of the current file and current project.
Then when I click to submit an answer, it hangs again. When I try to navigate through my files or even write some code manually while an answer is being generated → lag and I can’t do anything
Same when I click on the “copy” button of a generated answer, or I click “apply”, etc. Basically every interaction I have with Cody generates lag. Even changing the extension’s settings.
It has now gotten to the point where it’s significantly slowing down my work, so I just wanted to let you know and see if you were aware of the issue or not. I really like your product and I would rather not bother looking into an alternative if this lag issue could be easily fixed
Hey @Luppa90
How many chat history items do you have on your list?
What is your machine spec?
I assume that there are too many chat history items, the extension starts to lack.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Hey! I don’t know if there’s a place where I can get an exact number, but it does look like a few hundred 
Can you tell me how I can delete all the history items? I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled the extension a few times already but I never thought of checking if the history was still there.
I have a 7800x3d, 64gb ddr5, rtx 4090, and only SSDs (half empty)
You can delete the entire chat in the chat history tab and there is a trash bin symbol at the top “Delete All”
Wow thanks that fixed the issue! I feel reborn hahaha
Just so you know: until now I never used the “Cody” extension button on the left pane of Vscode to interact with Cody (except for the first login). I would just use Alt+L to open a cody chat window and manage all my chats there. In the chat windows opened by Alt+L, there is a button to view the history, but there is no option to delete any chat item. (until now I didn’t even know the chat window was different from the extension window)
Anyway thanks again for your quick answers! I’m happy it was just a quick fix
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