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ceukyesterday at 7:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

Is having massive sessions which sit idle for hours (or days) at a time considered unusual? That's a really, really common scenario for me.

Two questions if you see this:

1) if this isn't best practice, what is the best way to preserve highly specific contexts?

2) does this issue just affect idle sessions or would the cache miss also apply to /resume ?


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hedgehogyesterday at 7:58 PM

Have the tool maintain a doc, and use either the built-in memory or (I prefer it this way) your own. I've been pretty critical of some other aspects of how Claude Code works but on this one I think they're doing roughly the right thing given how the underlying completion machinery works.

Edit: If you message me I can share some of my toolchain, it's probably similar to what a lot of other people here use but I've done some polishing recently.

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jetbalsayesterday at 7:56 PM

The cache is stored on Antropics servers, since its a save state of the LLM's weights at the time of processing. its several gigs in size. Every SINGLE TIME you send a message and its a cache miss you have to reprocess the entire message again eating up tons of tokens in the process

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