It's unsurprising when this is the first day that tokens have been crazy like this.

All of us doing crazy agentic stuff were fine on max before this. Now with Opus 4.7, we're no longer fine, and troubleshooting, and working through options.

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JimmaDaRustla 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> were fine on max before this

Ya...you may be who I'm talking about though (if you're speaking from experience). If your methodology is "I used 4.6 max, so I'm going to try 4.7 max" this is fully on you - 4.7 max is not equivalent to 4.6 max, you want 4.7 xhigh.

From their docs:

max: Max effort can deliver performance gains in some use cases, but may show diminishing returns from increased token usage. This setting can also sometimes be prone to overthinking. We recommend testing max effort for intelligence-demanding tasks.

xhigh (new): Extra high effort is the best setting for most coding and agentic use cases.

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AndyNemmity 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Sorry, in that case I misunderstood max to mean the subscription, max 20.

I am on xhigh.

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JimmaDaRustla 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Ah - xhigh is probably what you want. Their docs suggest xhigh for agentic coding, though judging by their blog high should be better than 4.6 max (ymmv)

I've always used high, so maybe I should be using xhigh

	▲	AndyNemmity 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'm actually in the process of switching all of my agents to sonnet, and going to try to drop down to medium. I used up 1/3rd of my context in less than a day. I am working diligently to do whatever I can to lower token usage.