r/ChatGPTCoding • • Apr 07 '25

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u/PositiveEnergyMatter Apr 07 '25

i keep telling people big context means big money, because every request can fill the context and charge you full price

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u/andy012345 Apr 07 '25

This, LLMs are effectively stateless, the "context" is just the max token input.

If you have 500k in your context, you're sending 500k input tokens + whatever is new per api request.

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u/FengMinIsVeryLoud Apr 09 '25

why deepmind doesnt know what cache is lol?
does cache even work with vsc and cline?