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For me, making it high effort just fixed all the quality problems, and even cut down on token use somehow
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This. They kind of snuck this into the release notes: switching the default effort level to Medium. High is significantly slower, but that’s somewhat mitigated by the fact that you don’t have to constantly act like a helicopter parent for it.

Yup, they recommend a minimum of high for coding now, and cranked the default up to extra high.



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