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If you think about it, the production quality is probably log-linear, so the token growth may well be exponential.

Not quite the same scenario, but it's already plausible to have a situation where every subagent is allowed to spawn multiple subagents, in which case we'd have literally exponential credit consumption growth...

"i have to burn $10k in tokens to meet my end-of-month work quota. spawn ten sub-agents each of which is allowed to spawn as many sub-agents as it likes to create an analysis of the code in these files based on the precepts of the 13th century German philosopher Noodleheinz".

I think that you send the entire conversation with every request.

As long as you stay under the 1-hour caching TTL for your open threads, I guess your marginal cost is linear.

This is me on a weekday flicking between Ghostty tabs to enter “stand by” every ~45 mins.

Anthropic changed the cache TTL to five minutes, back in March.

Thanks, didn’t realise the API and Claude Code had different TTL.