Anthropic Staff: Don't Max Out Sonnet's Effort, Use Opus Instead

Anthropic employee Edwin Arbus advised users not to run Sonnet at max effort, saying Sonnet is designed to balance quality, speed and cost, and demanding tasks should be handled by Opus instead.

2026-09-29 ~ 2026-09-29 · 2 related posts

• Anthropic engineer: don't use Sonnet at max effort — just use Opus — edwinarbus · 2026-09-29
• Anthropic engineer: don't run Sonnet at max effort — use Opus instead — edwinarbus · 2026-09-29