High powered modes, pricing and the big black box

[realfunnyeric]

To start, I love high-powered mode. I just spun off a well-developed medical application and transformed it from a one-trick pony into a multi-tenant white-label beast with a single prompt, which cost me about $9.26. Then I had a follow-up to fix a few little quirks, which cost me $5.24.

But one worked for 10 minutes and changed almost 1,100 lines of code. The other worked for 3 minutes and altered 40.

A little more verbosity in what/why was charged would be super helpful, I think. How can this be explained?

Ultimately, the performance is next-level. This is not a complaint, but a curiosity.

[anilmalhotra2]

Can you define what you mean by high powered mode? Is this an agent or assistant action? I’m actually more than happy to pay a few dollars once rather than repeatedly pay pennies to get what I want done quickly and accurately.

[realfunnyeric]

[anilmalhotra2]

Got it. Found it. Kind of buried in the bottom of the window. They should really adjust the UI to make it more obvious or even have the agent suggest its use especially if bugs are going repeatedly unresolved. Thank you!

[realfunnyeric]

I always have extended thinking on. I only use Opus 4 when absolutely necessary, as it is a bank breaker (but also a good bug smasher).