A TinyCTO.tv Hype Stack technical parable about semantic cache, stale answers, truth drift. Cache truth with version, scope, freshness, invalidation, and authority—not similarity alone.
# Episode 167 — The Cache Saved Latency and Lost Truth — Script
## Concept semantic cache;stale answers;truth drift
## Hype promise A shared AI platform will make inference fast, observable, and economically predictable.
## System reality A semantic cache returns last quarter’s approved answer quickly after policy and pricing have changed.
Risk approval is not risk ownership unless the decision is tied to people who can act when the risk becomes real.