Maximum Effort, Measured

When Claude Code’s Hardest Setting Earns Its Keep — Every prompt I send to Claude Code carries a hidden dial. Turn it one way and I wait twice as long, and pay nearly twice the tokens, for an answer I could have had sooner. Turn it the other way and I get a competent, forgettable response to a question that deserved judgment. The dial is called effort, and for the seven months I have used Claude…