Inference providers may need smarter cache windows than a fixed five minutes

lucasmeijer · x · 2026-07-26

The discussion suggests inference providers could use session history and the last message to predict whether a conversation will hit cache in the next few minutes.

A follow-up points out that tool-call timeout settings should probably affect cache-window decisions too, since a fixed “always 5 minutes” policy may be a poor fit for agent-style workloads.

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