Cold Agent Context Caches Turn a Simple 'Hi' Into a $1 Message

Arena explains how cold context caches make a casual 'hi' after a break cost around $1 in Agentic AI workflows, as the system must reprocess a million-token context.

2026-08-19 ~ 2026-08-19 · 2 related posts

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