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A TokenLab blog post details a production debugging case where a semantic cache appeared to perform well (low latency, high hit rate) but returned semantically incorrect answers. The root cause was that the cache measured raw hits rather than validated hits, and high similarity scores from shared template text caused cache reuse for different requests.
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