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Re:Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 by pests on Sunday April 19, 2026 @10:10PM (#47829598)
> And it gets churned by every single request they receive.

Not true, it gets calculated once and essentially baked into initial state basically and gets stored in a standard K/V prefix cache. Processing only happens on new input (minus attention which will have to content with tokens from the prompt)

Re:Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 by joquarky on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @06:50PM (#47855746)
So we still pay for 10% of it or not?