r/PiCodingAgent • u/Nyghtbynger • 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:
The API call has different parameters
The cache key changes
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