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The effort parameter in Claude Code is essentially useless. It’s just an expression that you wish it to do deeper reasoning but Anthropic can and does ignore it
by vincent_s 5mo ago
The effort parameter in Claude Code is essentially useless. It’s just an expression that you wish it to do deeper reasoning but Anthropic can and does ignore it without even telling you.
- bisonbear 5mo agoClaude does appear to work for longer, and use more tokens, when at higher reasoning modes. It just doesn't seem like this increased token usage leads to better actual outcomes