Using Claude’s strongest settings for everything can burn limits fast
A can use up the quickly when every task runs on Opus 4.8, max effort, with thinking enabled. That setup may produce the best answers, but it can be more power than needed for resumes, cover letters, general research, explanations, planning, and visual guides. Many of those tasks may not need , so they can spend extra tokens without a gain in quality.
Coding is also planned for later use, which makes saving the strongest settings for harder work more important. The central issue is how to choose the right model and for each task while keeping strong results and using fewer tokens.
Key points
- ’s can run out quickly under heavy use.
- The current setup uses Opus 4.8, max effort, and thinking for every task.
- The main tasks are resumes, cover letters, research, explanations, planning, and visual guides.
- Those tasks may not always need , so they can waste tokens.
- Future coding use makes it more important to save stronger settings for harder tasks.