Default Effort Elevation to HIGH
- Entity ID:
ent-20260419-5bbb7c6697b6 - Type:
decision - Scope:
shared - Status:
active - Aliases: v2.1.94 effort elevation, default HIGH effort
Description
Anthropic decision in v2.1.94 (April 7, 2026) to elevate default reasoning effort from low/medium to HIGH for all users, reversing the thinking-depth regression at the cost of higher per-session compute. Shipped 6 days after Stella Laurenzo filed GitHub #42796 (790 HN points). Directly attributed to community-documented regression pressure.
Key claims
- Default effort elevated to HIGH as response to regression report
- /cost command shipped before default-effort elevation to give users spend transparency
Relations
- Default Effort Elevation to HIGH --[informed_by]--> GitHub Issue #42796
- Bedrock Auth Hotfix --[fixed]--> Default Effort Elevation to HIGH
- Default Effort Elevation to HIGH --[fixed]--> Thinking Depth Regression (pre-redaction)
- April 1-12 Release Sprint --[contains]--> Default Effort Elevation to HIGH