alt Hacker NewsThe response doesn't even make sense and appears to be written by AI.
> The March 6 change makes Claude Code cheaper, not more expensive. 1h TTL for every request could cost more, not less
Feels very AI. > Restore 1h as the default / expose as configurable? 1h everywhere would increase total cost given the request mix, so we're not planning a global toggle.
They won't show a toggle because it will increase costs for some unknown percentage of requests?
Sounds like a decision I would make when memory is expensive and you want to get rid of the very long (in time) tail of waiting 1h to evict cache when a session has stopped.
There must be a better way to do this. The consumer option is the pricing difference. If they’d make cache writes the same price as regular writes, that would solve the whole problem. If you really want to push it, use that pricing only for requests where number of cache hits > 0 (to avoid people setting this flag without intent to use it), and you solved the whole issue.