Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn

1020: How to Choose Model Size and Effort Level: The Two Critical Dials

📅 August 21, 2026 ⏱️ 16m

In Episode #1020, Jon Krohn unpacks the two dials that increasingly decide what you get out of a large language model: which model size you pick and how much effort you tell it to spend. Using a July Anthropic blog post by Claude Code’s Lydia Holly as a jumping-off point, with guidance that generali