TLDR Dev · MISCELLANEOUS

YOUR CODING AGENT LOSES ITS CACHE WHILE IT WAITS FOR YOU

siddhantkhare.com19 min read

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A survey of agent inference research distinguishes cache misses caused by memory pressure from those caused by human pauses. One public trace reported about 97% cache reuse after tool calls but 18% after gaps longer than an hour, highlighting a retention problem that autonomous benchmark loops often miss.