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Cross-repository work is a context problem

gwerbin describes synthesizing information across three repositories and many business documents. In their experience, weaker reasoning settings missed details, while longer outputs became difficult to inspect. They wonder whether a retrieval-based memory system could help.

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“I found that I need the big model and the high reasoning effort on tasks where I have a large amount of details of”

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Original discussionAnthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code
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I initially had unbelievably terrible experiences with Opus 5 and Fable in their higher reasoning levels. I've had WAY better results on medium effort. IIUC, the consensus seems to be that anything more than medium effort is rarely worth it - and you far more often run into these extreme worst cases than you do with even the lowest effort levels. That definitely coincides with my anecdata. It's really only worth it if you're hoping to win the lottery asking it to solve an Erdos problem.

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