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dostick 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex enginee...

Mentioning ULTRATHINK in prompt is the equivalent to /effort max?

merlindru 4 months ago | [–]

Yes but only for the message that includes it. Whereas /effort max keeps it at max effort the entire convo, to my knowledge

ccmcarey 4 months ago | [–]

No, ultrathink puts it in /effort high mode. There's no kw for one turn of effort max

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