That was my immediate impression too! It feels like it's all AI maximalists who seem to have a need to filter their every interaction through an LLM. And the result looks and reads just like Moltbook.

It feels (nobody can prove it) that all user-facing applications are fully vibe-coded and no internal developers have any idea how they work, so they just keep redirecting user questions to Claude to answer on behalf of them. That's why they are dealing with regressions and downtimes every few releases as it's the usual pattern with vibe coding that bug keep resurfacing.

It only potentially saves money for people on API pricing, it exhausts tokens faster with no benefit for users on the Claude Code subscription. Those users had their cache TTL reduced from 1 hour to 5 minutes and are saving no money because they were not paying based on the cache time in the first place.

Because it is made up fluff for this audience. There is a wall of data and evidence + anecdotes from many people pointing to the exact problem here and giving concrete examples of how this absolutely does cost more.

And an admittedly uncharitable TLDR on the response is: "yeah... but most users just ask one thing and barely use the product so they never need the cache. Also trust me bro".

Which sure, fine. I'm willing to bet is technically true. I'd also bet those users never previously came close to hitting their session limits given their usage because their usage is so low. But now people who were previously considered low to moderate users are hitting limits within minutes.

They may as well have just said "we've looked at the data and we're happy with this change because it's a performance improvement for people we make the most margin on. Sucks to be you".