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Comment by Jcampuzano2 | Hacker News Reader

I always find the time/token differences between the xhigh and the max effort levels for Claude models absolutely insane.

Even more so, because in a lot of their benchmarks they use the max models. I honestly think I'd rather these labs use their xhigh models as the default for benchmarking instead since I don't think the average person is even using max.

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Benchmarks are the entire reason why max exists

I use max all the time, a bit annoyed that they keep trying to silently switch me off it. (Claude Code will refuse to remember a setting of max and will continually reset it to xhigh - I have an objection to these patterns in general)

I'm definitely not the average person though.

I say half facetiously - have you tried writing a skill or rule to remember your setting as a workaround?

I actually don't like that it sometimes remembers the last model/effort i used. I should be able to set a default model/effort that is separate from the one off fable runs I use.

"s" for just this session. "ENTER" for use it and set it as the default.

I thought the thinking effort was specified out of band from that, though maybe it's not. Not sure if the model was trained to listen in other areas. The biggest issue is, it's difficult to tell if it works because you can no longer see the thinking! Though I guess if you can't tell a difference in the output, was there any point to max in the first place?

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