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Re:An update on recent Claude Code quality reports by vanviegen on Friday April 24, 2026 @04:49AM (#47887487)
They probably already do that. But these caches can get pretty big (10s of GBs per session), so that adds up fast, even for cold storage.
Re:An update on recent Claude Code quality reports by kovek on Friday April 24, 2026 @02:21PM (#47893979)
10s of GBs? ( 1,000,000 context * 1,000 vector size ) ^ 2 = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000… oh wow.. I must be miscalculating

What about only storing the conversation and then recomputing the embeddings in the cache? Does that cost a lot? Doing a lot of matrix multiplication does not cost dollars of compute, especially on specialized hardware, right?

Re:An update on recent Claude Code quality reports by Majromax on Friday April 24, 2026 @03:08PM (#47894536)
Context length 1e6, vector length 1e3, and 1e2 model layers for 100e9 context size. Costs will go up even more with a richer latent space and more model layers, and the western frontier outfits are reasonably likely to be maximizing both.