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Have you ever had a local coding agent flying at the start of a session and crawling an…

Have you ever had a local coding agent flying at the start of a session and crawling an hour later? It's not heat or…

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Have you ever had a local coding agent flying at the start of a session and crawling an hour later? It's not heat or RAM but the KV cache. The agent appends everything to the context every turn: files, tool outputs, all of it. The server caches that prefix, so normally only the new tokens get processed. But when something early in the chat changes (e.g. the agent trims old tool outputs) or the request lands on a different cache slot, that cache is useless. It rereads the whole conversation from scratch. With 200k+ tokens that can be a ~2 minutes read before it even starts replying. How to

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