The thinking lever

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

May 8, 2026

Duration

24m

Channel

Claude

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

Adaptive thinking and effort controls give developers a new decision: how much should Claude reason for a given task? This session covers thinking budgets, effort levels, and the cost, latency, and quality tradeoffs involved.

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of Claude, The thinking lever explores how Claude scales inference compute with effort, budgets, adaptive thinking The talk defines test-time compute as spending more inference-time tokens to improve results, showing performance gains both from larger models and from higher effort on the same model.

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