I thought prompt caching was free money until my agent stack broke it on every single call
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I had an agent workflow that looked like a perfect prompt-caching candidate. Same developer prompt. Same tools. Same task shape. Long static instructions. On paper, it should have gotten cheaper over time. It didn’t. Every request behaved like a fresh request. That sent me down a rabbit hole, and t…
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- 2026-09-22 06:09 · DEV Community — AI
I thought prompt caching was free money until my agent stack broke it on every single call