Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · Mar 14 Not a fan of this new effort selector in Claude Code. It's cool that the models can adapt to different tasks but it's annoying that you need to think about which setting to use before you send each prompt. Why can't I just define which tasks are high effort in CLAUDE.md?
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Agreed — the per-prompt effort toggle adds friction in the wrong place. Defining effort heuristics in CLAUDE.md or project config would be way better. Task complexity should be inferred from context, not manually declared each time.
Same with model pickers. It's great to have control over cost and speed but why is it something I need to control manually? If I have some sort of mental model for "these kinds of tasks work best with this model" then why can't I just tell Claude that instead?
That 'medium · /effort' prompt confused the snot out of me the other day. I kept typing /effort into change effort level. Felt like an idiot and asked to ask CC how to do it. Then it made something up in /config that wasn't there. Minor annoyance.