The speaker says that increasing effort has a relatively small effect on software-engineering results because the additional effort is mainly used for verification and edge-case testing.

“with basically the complexity of the task so for security effort gets like way more results like high effort versus like low effort gets like changes the evals a lot but for software engineering it doesn't change it a huge amount because effort is mostly spent on the verification and the like edge case testing and things like that and so like being able to like give the model that guidance of like hey this problem is something that i think”