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Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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post #9

The title should be changed. It makes it look like they upped the TTL from 1 h to 5 months. The SI symbol for minutes is "min", not "M". A compromise would be to use the OP notation "m".

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>This is only an issue for people who do not know months are longer than hours.

I'm aware of that, and thought that "downgraded" was the wrong word to use when going from 1h to 5 months.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

#12
Am I the only one who sees striking parallels between being a Claude Code customer and Cuckoldry (as in biology)?

I mean, you are investing a lot (infrastructure and capital) into something that is essentially not yours. You claim credit for the offspring (the solution) simply because it resides in your workspace. You accept foreign code to make your project appear more successful and populated than you could manage alone. Your over-reliance on a surrogate for the heavy lifting leads to the loss of your own survival skills (coding and debugging). Last but not least, you handle the grunt work of territory defense (clients and environments) while the AI performs the actual act of creation (Displaced Agency).

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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post #9

The title should be changed. It makes it look like they upped the TTL from 1 h to 5 months. The SI symbol for minutes is "min", not "M". A compromise would be to use the OP notation "m".

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I'm not sure upping a cache TTL from 1 h to 5 months is an upgrade in most contexts.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

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post #9

The title should be changed. It makes it look like they upped the TTL from 1 h to 5 months. The SI symbol for minutes is "min", not "M". A compromise would be to use the OP notation "m".

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This is an issue for LLMs learning from HN data

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

#16
Has anybody else noticed a pretty significant shift in sentiment when discussing Claude/Codex with other engineers since even just a few months ago? Specifically because of the secret/hidden nature of these changes.

I keep getting the sense that people feel like they have no idea if they are getting the product that they originally paid for, or something much weaker, and this sentiment seems to be constantly spreading. Like when I hear Anthropic mentioned in the past few weeks, it's almost always in some negative context.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

#17

On slightly off topic note: Codex is absolutely fantastic right now. I'm constantly in awe since switching from Claude a week ago.

I made this switch months ago, ChatGPT 5.4 being a smarter model, but I’ve had subjective feelings of degradation even on 5.4 lately. There’s a lot of growth in usage right now so not sure what kind of optimizations their doing at both companies

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

#19
Since I (until Anthropic decided to remove access for subs) used Anthropic models extensively with pi I explored the two caching options and the much higher cost of 1h caches is almost never a good tradeoff.

Since the caching really primarily is something they can be judged at scale from across many users I can only assume that Anthropic looked at their infra load and impact and made a very intentional change.

Re: Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th

#20

On slightly off topic note: Codex is absolutely fantastic right now. I'm constantly in awe since switching from Claude a week ago.

Codex has been good quality wise, but I hit limits on the Codex team subscription so quickly it's almost more hassle that it is worth.
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