Claude Code's Cache Fixes: Check Before You Switch Models

If you are sitting there right now, you know, staring at your monthly API bill.

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of code, right, model, including: Oh, yeah, we see it all the time.

1. 01Before you blame the model itself for being too expensive or, you know, assume it's secretly inflating token counts, you have to look under the hood
2. 02You have to check if repeated context processing is the actual culprit draining your wallet
3. 03Our goal for you today is to decode how prompt caching actually functions at the server level