[fearmerchant]

If true, I suspect Anthropic will begin suspending accounts that use it.

[dannyw]

I highly doubt that.

Keeping your cache warm is a good thing, caching saves compute and electricity.

Cached input is cheap for a reason, it is in everyone’s mutual interests to maximise cache hit rates.

[OccamsMirror]

If that was true then Anthropic would have built this functionality in themselves.

[brookst]

They did. On any long running query with large context, tell Claude “give me a status report every 4 minutes to keep the cache warm”. It’s entirely happy to oblige and usually says “good idea, that will keep costs down”