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enraged_cameltoday at 7:35 PM1 replyview on HN

Speed is a huge reason. Sometimes you just need some simple tasks get done fast, and waiting 30-60 seconds for opus to even start thinking can really slow things down.


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humanymoustoday at 7:52 PM

Opus with low reasoning effort would be faster than Sonnet with high reasoning. So that won't exactly help. I think it would just be what those models are optimized to perform