Equation 23 · Part 1 · The Economics and Physical Limits of Running AI Agents at Scale
Symbol gamma
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…[ 2 ] . A cache read costs a tenth of the base input price; a five-minute cache write costs 1.25 times it [ 1 , 2 ] . Substituting those multipliers into the model — reading the accumulated history at the discounted rate 0.1 instead of the full rate, and writing only the newest increment at the write rate w 1.25 — gives
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