Claude Opus 4.7 Is a Routing Problem
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The interesting thing about Claude Opus 4.7 is not that it is better. It is that Anthropic shipped controls for how hard it thinks.
New xhigh effort level. Task budgets that cap how much an agent spends per turn. Per-request effort tuning.
This turns model selection from a one-time decision into a routing problem: which task gets deep reasoning, which task gets speed, which task gets a budget cap.
The teams that figure out routing will outperform the teams that just pick the "best model" for everything.
Anthropic announcement →
