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The idea here is that your conversation is being swapped out for no good reason. The session is still active, as the subagents continue to make progress.

How is this comparable to going to lunch or taking a walk?

How do a few extra requests with the same prefix make it more expensive for everyone else?

Make the cache TTL more adaptive. Have more tiers than just 5m and 1h. Long-running subagents become increasingly ubiquitous. There's no reason for Anthropic to not do a better job for this use case.

When using API keys the default is still 5 minutes. Setting 1 hour for the entire session is actually a lot more wasteful considering the 2x rate that it comes with

You can set the retention globally (whole session) to 1 hour which will actually make it more expensive. The default is 5 minutes.

*UPD:* actually it appears the default is authentication-dependent. API key gets 5 minutes, subscriptions - 1 hour.

Do we give them 24 or 48 hours before somebody hacks their service?

I still don't get. The author calls these "Not MVPs. Not prototypes. Working products", but how many users do these "products" actually have?

Have they iterated on user feedback? Have they fixed obscure issues? Made any major changes after the initial version?

More importantly, can the author claim with a straight face that they no longer need to read or understand the code that has been produced?

Just another one of those “look, I built a greenfield pet project over the weekend, software engineering is dead.”