Models Exhibit "Prefill Awareness"
stochasticchasm · x · 2026-07-04
stochasticchasm observed that models possess "prefill awareness"—the ability to distinguish between an ongoing session and a resumed one. Because OpenAI and Anthropic encrypt the reasoning process, previous conversation turns lose their reasoning content once the cache expires, and the models themselves are aware of this.
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