https://renezander.com/tags/llm-infrastructure/Recent content in Llm-Infrastructure on René Zander | AI Automation ConsultantHugoenFri, 27 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100https://renezander.com/blog/claude-extended-thinking/Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0100https://renezander.com/blog/claude-extended-thinking/<p>The first time I turned on Claude extended thinking for a real agent, the run went from 4 seconds to 47. The output was better. The bill was worse. That tradeoff is the whole story.</p> <p>Claude extended thinking lets Opus or Sonnet produce a block of visible reasoning tokens before the final answer. You give it a budget, it spends that budget thinking, and you pay for every thinking token at the output rate. The upside is measurable quality gains on multi-step problems. The downside is latency and cost that scale with the budget you set.</p>