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'We removed over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt' — and the evals didn't move. The popular takeaway ('write shorter prompts') is wrong: what got deleted was constraints, not information. A usable dividing line, plus the API-layer mechanics the official post left out and the two real disagreements from 343 HN comments.
How to use Claude prompt caching to reuse static context, reduce repeated input costs, and keep long prompts faster. Includes a hands-on benchmark: the same 63KB system prefix sent 21 times, cost per request dropping from $0.0719 to $0.0058 (91.9%) on a cache hit, while time to first token improved by only about 150ms.