Been defaulting to Opus 4.7 with max thinking for basically everything lately and it’s been excellent. Obviously it’s slower and burns more tokens, which I’m fine with for the work I’m doing. But I’m curious if anyone has noticed other tradeoffs I might be missing. Some things I’ve wondered about: Does it ever overthink simple tasks and produce worse output than a lighter config would? Any tasks where you’ve found Sonnet 4.6 or non-max Opus actually outperforms it (not just “good enough” but actually better)? Tool use reliability, is it same, better, or worse with heavier thinking? Any quirks with how it handles long context windows compared to lower-effort configs? Or is the consensus basically “if you can afford the time and cost, max Opus is always the most effective option”? Trying to figure out if I should be more strategic about when I dial it down vs just leaving it cranked. Curious what people’s experience has been. submitted by /u/BadAtDrinking
Originally posted by u/BadAtDrinking on r/ClaudeCode