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Choosing a Model and Effort Level

A coding agent lets you choose two things: the model that does the work, and the effort, which is how much it thinks before it answers or acts. A bigger model is better on long, many-step jobs and code it hasn't seen, and it's slower and uses your plan faster. More effort means more thinking on…

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