Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code

Re:Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels... by nozzlegear on Saturday August 22, 2026 @04:38PM (#49403664)

Ouch. I get ~45t/s with Qwen3.6 35B A3B, and around ~70-80 with my current model Ornith 1.5 35B A3B. Local models work a treat IMO if you've got decent hardware for it.

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Re:Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels... by trollbridge on Sunday August 23, 2026 @08:16AM (#49408203)

They’re very nice for some things.

One challenge I run into is I run many agents at once, so local resource are a tiny fraction of the total inference we’re using. Every developer with his own Pro 20x, Max, etc. accounts is letting us hit literally trillions of tokens a month.

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