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Why coding agents break prompt caching (and how to fix it)

TL;DR: The Prefix Problem: LLM prompt caching relies on exact, continuous prefixes. Naive agent summarization alters early conversation history, destroying the KV cache and forcing full prefill compute. The Evidence: The October 28 release of contextWatcher (a Rust proxy) proved the impact of prefi…

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  1. 2026-11-02 15:10 · DEV Community — AI
    Why coding agents break prompt caching (and how to fix it)

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