Episode Details
EPISODE INFO
- 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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