Can you be more explicit?
Max effort is the way to give the highest perf, but not highest perf/$. Having claude (or other models) use a lower effort can often be 80% as smart but get to the results 10x faster for the problems where it works.
Max effort is the way to give the highest perf, but not highest perf/$. Having claude (or other models) use a lower effort can often be 80% as smart but get to the results 10x faster for the problems where it works.