@cline: PSA: use medium thinking effort instead of xhigh. Opus 5 medium ranked #2 on FrontierCode at 53.4% for $4.31/task, whil…
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A public service announcement advises using medium thinking effort for the Opus 5 AI model, which ranked second on the FrontierCode benchmark with better cost-efficiency than the xhigh effort setting.
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PSA: use medium thinking effort instead of xhigh.
Opus 5 medium ranked #2 on FrontierCode at 53.4% for $4.31/task, while xhigh ranked #16 at 43.6% for $9.14/task.
1/2 the cost and 10% better. https://t.co/uCvykqVQwo
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