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Claude Code's Max Effort Cost Me 8x More. It Wrote the Same Code.

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Claude Code has an /effort command with five levels: low, medium, high, xhigh, max. The help text for low says "quick, straightforward implementation with minimal overhead." The natural assumption is that the higher levels buy you better code, and that the price is time and tokens. I wanted to see…

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  1. 2026-09-15 21:44 · DEV Community — AI
    Claude Code's Max Effort Cost Me 8x More. It Wrote the Same Code.

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