Your cache bill is a layout decision, and the layout rots silently
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Gal Zahavi went looking for where an agent's API bill was actually going, and found 84% of it sitting on cache reads and writes , split almost evenly. Not the input and output tokens everyone watches. The cache. Compaction, the periodic squashing of old conversation turns to reclaim room, helped on…
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- 2026-09-02 14:13 · DEV Community — AI
Your cache bill is a layout decision, and the layout rots silently