That's what I have been doing with Cursor with auto mode. Let the model manage the cache through compaction but staying focused on the topic. It has been quite efficient cost wise and quality wise too. It found issuesbat cheaper cost that Sonnet 4.6 medium effort had missed while costing more. I would like to repeat this test with higher tier Anthropic models like Opus effort medium to see the results.

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edg5000 2 days ago | parent [-]

With a coding plan, there is no need to use lower quality models right (GPT 5.6, Fable 5). Only with some kind of batch job (processing PDFs) I could imagine not having enough usage with a 100 or 200 USD coding plan. It sounds like you're on API? I'm dying to know why, since it seems quite common, yet it's about ten times the cost. Sounds like a terrible deal. What am I missing?

	▲	noisy_boy 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		What I said was specific to work and it is not entirely clear to me why the cost goes up so much the moment I switch to medium with just Sonnet 4.6 (newer models would be even more I guess). There is a monetary budget allocated and I've blown it easily in the past with Claude. Cursor has been a life saver.