I’ve been experimenting with effort settings including max for the past 2 days. Max does trigger CC to think for much longer than high, and I found it effective when re-attempting trickier bugs that CC fails to fix in a row under lower effort settings. One gotcha for me is that I always forget to reset the effort level back to lower, resulting in unnecessarily long thinking for my subsequent work in the same session. So I’m eyeing the auto option. I understand that auto clears any session-level manual overrides and lets the model decide how much to “think” based on the task’s complexity. Played with it but could not tell from clock time alone whether it ever reaches max. Has anyone dug into this or noticed a difference between auto and just leaving it on high? submitted by /u/Sea_Pitch_7830
Originally posted by u/Sea_Pitch_7830 on r/ClaudeCode