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The speaker says that for simpler software-engineering tasks, lower- and medium-ability models can use fewer tokens on verification.

Thariq Shihipar · Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic · 29 Sept 2026

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“i see it like you you did it right and so a lot of the at higher effort you spend more of those tokens verifying but if you're working on simpler problems and a lot of software engineering is like you know like well like in fable like low and mediums ability it can spend less tokens verifying and as a model gets smarter and smarter they will just be able to like”
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