Extended thinking may help more with code than creative work
A three-week firsthand comparison found better results when was turned on. For code, it caught and possible failures that were missed without it. For multi-step reasoning, it avoided some wrong answers that were given too confidently without the extra thinking time.
For creative writing, the difference seemed small and often not worth the wait. The main problem is not only quality, but friction. resets in new chats and prompts, sits behind a small toggle, and feels optional, so many people skip it because they forget or do not want another click.
ThinkMode+ is a free that keeps the setting on automatically and only tries to remove that friction. Using for every task may be overkill, especially for creative writing.
Key points
- appeared to improve code tasks by catching missed .
- It helped more with multi-step reasoning than with creative writing.
- The feature often gets skipped because it resets and requires an extra toggle.
- ThinkMode+ keeps on automatically in Chrome.
- The tradeoff is slower , so it may not fit every task.