Stop Maxing Claude's Effort. Start at Medium

I help knowledge workers use AI responsibly to do better work, get the better job and the faster promotion. 🔥 Community: AI for Consultants on Skool 🔥 Working out which tasks need more thinking? Bring your current AI project and ask inside. https://www.skool.com/claude-for-cons... 💻 Need custom work? 💻 https://www.ongkrong.com Most people push Claude's effort setting to max because the task feels hard to them. The model isn't you. In this video I explain what the effort setting does, why max is usually the wrong call, the 2 things that have to be true before I raise it, and where I start every task instead. ⏰ TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Why everyone pushes effort to max 0:25 - What the effort setting actually does 1:43 - The bias: it feels hard to you 3:06 - When to raise it: 2 things must be true 3:49 - 3 examples: buttons, architecture, a business model 5:42 - Start at medium, then adjust 6:53 - Fix your harness before you raise effort 8:41 - The Skool community Sources: Anthropic docs on effort: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/b... Claude Code model config: https://code.claude.com/docs/en/model... DISCLAIMER: AI helped edit this video (speed, graphics) and the short manual car B-roll clip is AI-generated. The ideas and the opinions are mine. #claude #claudecode #aiatwork