Dev finds Opus 5.5 Medium reasoning so good that High feels unnecessary
rudrank · x · 2026-09-25
Developer rudrank shares experience with Anthropic Opus reasoning effort settings: used to defaulting to High, but on the new model (called Opus 5.5) Medium performs so well that High now feels unnecessary — only used "for the thrill".
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