How to pick the right model in Claude, part 3.

Justin R. Lester explains when to use each Claude model. Haiku handles quick tasks cheaply, Sonnet works for everyday use, Opus tackles complex work, Fable handles longer content, and Mythos covers the most demanding jobs. Match the model to your task instead of always picking the biggest one.
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Let me show you something really cool in Claude part 3. Let me— here's what's really cool inside of Claude on my basic page. You go here. So this is the Claude desktop app, but I want to show you something. So Claude has multiple models. It has Haiku, Sonnet, Opus, Fable, and Mythos. Mythos is not available to everyone. Fable I still have because I'm that guy. But here's what I want you to do when you log in and use these. So Haiku, you can see here, think about Greek writing. So you have the short— the shortest is Haiku, longer is Sonnet, the longer is Opus, and then the longest Fable, and then Mythos. So since that's the case, I don't think anybody across this screen, unless you're building apps, are going to need anything above Sonnet because you just don't need it. But if you're building apps and websites, then Fable is going to be great for you. My suggestion would be this: use them differently because they're all going to take up different use, um, how much tokens you're using. So I would recommend Haiku for the quickest, Sonnet for shorter, more efficient tasks, and then Opus for complex stuff, and then Fable for like web pages and apps. My challenge to you is, as you do this, you can also choose the effort. My recommendation is the default setting they give you, which is Sonnet on default, thinking if you're using thinking. You can always up it. So if let's say you're writing a research paper, you want more thinking. If you are really doing something deep, you want Max. But if you're doing this, you probably just need to sit down and go to a library and do some writing. Anyway, there's different models in Claude, so don't use everything. Everything's not created equal. You don't need Sonnet for your grocery list, but then you don't use Haiku for a research paper. Make sense? All right, make sure you change your model based on what you use. Like and follow for more.
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