(Paid) The future of AI is cache‑shaped
AI’s future is cache-shaped: reuse answers to cut costly inference, deliver stable, fast, predictable responses.
AI feels like magic: ask, answer. But every trick has a cost, and in AI the cost is inference.
Inference is the thinking bit—and thinking at scale is expensive in money and energy. Multiply by millions of questions and the bill climbs faster than a teenager on mobile data.
So the future looks familiar. When computation gets pricey, we cache. We reuse. We store answers, stop recomputing, and move on.
AI is about to rediscover its inner 1998.
The return of the canned answer
Today’s chatbots behave like overeager interns: every question triggers a full performance. Even if they’ve heard it seven times, they do the dance from scratch.
