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AI path · course 26 of 142
The Effort Dial
Intermediate · 3 lessons · 0 complete
Fixed thinking budgets are gone on current Claude models, replaced by adaptive thinking plus an effort level in output_config. This course covers what effort actually controls, which workloads repay raising it, why xhigh became the coding default, and how effort interacts with prompt caching in ways that can quietly destroy your hit rate.
