There is a limit, after a few 10,000's of LOC ai projects start disintegrating and becoming unmanageable.
I just did the LoC measure that isn't "official" but actually closer to how AI would read it: I.e. simply actual lines. Never mind "context window".
Just in the actual source folder there are 1.9 million lines. That's not tokens. Lines. Not even LoC as per some official canonicalized definition. Various languages. ~15 year old code base.
We work with Claude just fine.
For variable measures of "fine" depending on how much devs just trust whatever Claude spits out ;)
At the same size I only heard of AI generated projects reimplementing compilers and browser engines which come with amazing tests written by hand, but even these projects generally don't become reliable enough to use.
That 1.9m code base, within the same time frame as the 160k was created? <10k by the same measure.
10k I can comfortably throw at a local agent on my system (see recent posts in my history). Whether I can keep it that small is another question I suppose lol!
Current project has over 60,000 LOC, I find using an antagonistic agent code and architecture reviews are really handy for keeping things grounded.
I do very little actual reading of code anymore. Now I am more of a results merchant.