Anthropic currently favors mild defaults and user-adjustable options, but expects to improve its customization approach over time.

“Uh, so we could take a heavier hand on these things, for example, but we want to give users the ability to experience the intelligence levels of Claude as they kind of see fit, especially if you want to go towards like the higher end, or you want to experiment with maybe sometimes in the, in the lower end if that actually is just like faster for your use case, which is a hard product trade-off I think.”

“Um, and so we, we tend to lean towards gentle defaults but give you options to, to adjust, which I think works okay-ish for now. But I imagine us, you know, like learning how to do that better over time for customers.”

“We're not like super, super happy with any of this yet, but we know as we launch a model, like y- you asked like what does it take to launch a model?”