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The thinking lever

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.

May 20, 202621mWatch on YouTube ↗

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Released
May 20, 2026
Duration
21m
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 uses inference-time compute to improve reasoning performance dramatically Increasing test-time compute (more tokens/time at inference) reliably improves Claude’s performance across diverse benchmarks and domains, similar to scaling training compute.

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