Reasoning effort as a credence good. Claude defaults to high effort, but most routine jobs do not need it. We made Ruby start at low effort and escalate only when a cheap deterministic verifier fails.Measured on 17 verifiable tasks: 29% cheaper than the high default at the same 94% pass rate. A flat low was cheaper still, and escalation did not beat a flat medium.https://workloft.ai/ships/low-effort-first-reasoning-2026-11-06.html#AgenticAI #LLM #Claude #AIEngineering
Reasoning effort as a credence good. Claude defaults to high effort, but most routine jobs do not need it. We made Ruby ...
