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Thinking is just tacked on for Anthropic's models and always has been so leaving it off actually produces better results everytime.
by sunaookami 8mo ago
Thinking is just tacked on for Anthropic's models and always has been so leaving it off actually produces better results everytime.
- girvo 8mo agoWhat about for analysis/planning? Honestly I've been using thinking, but if I don't have to with Opus 4.6 I'm totally keen to turn it off. Faster is better.
- sunaookami 8mo agoI've always just used the "Plan mode" in Claude Code, I don't know if it uses thinking? I have "MAX_THINKING_TOKENS" in my settings.json set to "0", too. Didn't notice a drop in performance, I find it better because it doesn't overthink ("wait, let me try..."). Likely depends on a case-by-case basis (as so often with AI). For me, it's better without thinking.