Hi! When prompting v0 for a ui change, often times it tends to completely refactor the entire page or component, changing or even erasing code not relevant to the request.
Anyone found a way to prevent that?
Thanks a lot in advance!
amyegan
July 21, 2025, 9:02pm
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I posted some quick tips in All my recent changes are consistently breaking my webapp - #8 by amyegan
But you should check out Jacob’s recent post for some of the best advice!
When you submit a message in the chat, v0 sends all of these
Your message and any attachments
Any project sources relevant to your message
Your entire chat history
It also includes all of the files in your codebase, in this order
Filenames relevant to your current message
Files changed by previous messages, sorted from most recent to last
All remaining files
The problem is that AI models have context limits, so sometimes this is too much information for v0 to use, and it needs to eliminate…