build1 distinct publisher
Compaction that cut tool output 38.4% pushed the bill up 6.8%
Provider prompt caches bill a reused prefix at roughly a tenth of input, so an agent that rewrites its own history to save tokens forfeits the discount and pays to re-prefill everything ahead of the edit.
Publishers:dev.to
Reality
- Evidence30
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+34
- Incentives35
- Confidence