What do you do while waiting for it (Claude Code)?

So, very short time using it, and I’m specifically reporting back with less for a reason:

So I’ve used this exclusively on styling tasks so this is all kinds of skewed, but I’d be interested to get others’ feedback.

The main difference I noticed using max effort was that it returned results much quicker, but consumed WAY more tokens, BUT with no discernible difference in output. Again, there are a metric :poop:ton of variables here, but the very first task I gave max effort was a CSS task that I believe “high effort” would have gotten wrong a few times before getting it right. Max effort got it in three tries but shot my freshly reset usage up to 11%! I feel like using high effort it may have taken five or six times but my usage would have been, like, 3%.

Does this track with anyone? It’s way too expensive for me to do some actual tests here.

For now I think I will stick to high effort and perhaps do the inverse of what is generally suggested: switch to higher effort when the thing can’t figure its :poop: out.

Otherwise, I don’t mind the extra waiting time to <insert things that I do while waiting for it to finish :wink: >