PostHog’s investigation found a 90% drop in input tokens but higher costs because Anthropic’s pricing makes cache creation far more expensive than reads. You must save roughly 12× tokens to offset new cache writes. Root causes: unnecessary re-reads, compaction-triggered expensive writes, and runaway subagents failing to terminate.
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