Claude Code now exposes a reasoning_effort knob with five public rungs: low, medium, high, xhigh, max. The pitch is simple. Higher effort means more thinking, which means better answers on hard problems.
The unasked question is what that knob actually costs, in tokens and dollars, and whether the same crank behaves the same way across different models. I spent an afternoon of subscription quota finding out
The unasked question is what that knob actually costs, in tokens and dollars, and whether the same crank behaves the same way across different models. I spent an afternoon of subscription quota finding out