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DeepSeek V4: How They Crushed the Million-Token Memory Problem
A million-token context window sounds impressive. Making it cheap enough to actually use is the hard part — and the engineering behind it is worth understanding properly.
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A million-token context window sounds impressive. Making it cheap enough to actually use is the hard part — and the engineering behind it is worth understanding properly.
Working through the cost architecture and where the latency math gets messy.
Nolan Lawson's post made me realize why 'better code' never got the marketing that 'faster code' did.
Why 'native' KV-cache design in a coding agent makes context ordering a first-class engineering constraint, not an afterthought.