Claude effort levels in practice: medium suffices for 80% of tasks
EricBuess · x · 2026-10-13
adocomplete shared a visualization of Claude's effort levels with usage habits: medium for 80% of tasks, high for 15%, and xhigh/max only for the most complex work. He finds Opus 5.5 on medium perfect for most coding tasks.
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