So, the Opus “Max Effort” setting seems to invoke more child agents to do its bidding, vs handling things on its own. After calling out a really poor effort, full of factual mistakes, lazy shortcuts, clearly not checking on things while making confident assertions, it confirmed that it spawned Haiku agents to do the most critical research and analysis steps, and then never checked the results. Just rolled them in. Side-by-side, I see much better results with the “High Effort” on the same prompts. There’s an irony there. Max Effort is having the opposite of the intended effect. Come on Claude Code team… I don’t need more tokens per call, I need a small allotment of 1 Million context window for the situations that require it – for me that’s " wideview " architecture and design stuff. I know you guys have it, you accidentally gave it to me for 24 hours last week. Why can’t I just have a taste on the Max 20x plan? “You work and you slave and you steal just enough for a sweet lick of that shiny brass ring. Don’t I get a lick? Doesn’t Gil get a lick?” submitted by /u/SilasTalbot
Originally posted by u/SilasTalbot on r/ClaudeCode
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