I see a lot of people complaining about 4.8 doing too much for things or people always defaulting to high or xhigh for effort because they think they’ll get better outputs. Thats not how you should use the effort values. Effort should be directly tied to how expansive your task is, not how difficult. Are you writing some INCREDIBLY complex logical loop confined to one file? Go medium. Do you need a small one line code change that you aren’t sure where it should be and it’s a file that’s linked to 3 other subdirectories in your repo and called by 5 other features? Go higher. Think about what you would need to think about and how many thing you’d need to check when determining effort and actually change it based on your requests. Give it a shot and see what happens submitted by /u/heavyc-dev
Originally posted by u/heavyc-dev on r/ClaudeCode