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    quote: Most of a long conversation genuinely does bill at that cache-read rate, because most of it is being read, not reprocessed.
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    quote: Anything else still means summarizing what matters yourself, and starting over.
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  - text: Anything else still means summarizing what matters yourself, and starting over.
    why_it_matters: Instructs that telling agents to ignore information adds new voters rather than removing old ones, making manual summaries and fresh sessions the only effective solution
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# Context is a voting chamber

[Read the post](https://tine.staric.net/blog/2026/outvoted/) · Tech Adventures in Business Central (Tine Staric) · 2026-08-31 · 1916 words · tier community · **flagged** (a review found a problem)

> Summary withheld: an Opus review found that the machine-written summary did not match the post. Read the original post.

## Quotes

- "Most of a long conversation genuinely does bill at that cache-read rate, because most of it is being read, not reprocessed." (Clarifies the cost economics: caching makes long sessions manageable financially, costing only one-tenth of input rates for reused context)
- "Anything else still means summarizing what matters yourself, and starting over." (Instructs that telling agents to ignore information adds new voters rather than removing old ones, making manual summaries and fresh sessions the only effective solution)

## Context

- Features: prompt caching, cache write and read pricing, attention heads, context retirement, session handoffs, subagents, plan mode, todo list management

Source: Tech Adventures in Business Central, community blog. Summary, key points and quotes are derived (CONTENT-NOTICE.md); read the original for the full text.