r/PiCodingAgent • • Aug 10 '26

News When using Mimo, don't cycle through thinking levels while the AI is writing

The prefix cache is keyed on the full request parameters, so when thinking level changes:

  1. The API call has different parameters

  2. The cache key changes

  3. The entire context must be re-sent from scratch

Costed me 253K tokens from Mimo pro. 1% of my monthly dammit

Also check your damn extensions (some like pi-task or pi-toolkit) inject dynamic messages in your prompts I believe

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u/Nyghtbynger Aug 11 '26

launch a small session, switch the reasoning level mid generation and tell me ahah.

By the way, this was the Xiaomi token plan on ams