Low Effort Somehow Won the Code Review
Claude Code’s /code-review just grew effort levels: a dial for how hard the review works, and the whole review gets rewritten from scratch at each setting. The funny part is that even the lowest effort setting reportedly beats other code reviewers. Cranking the dial, though, just means running more inference, and on someone else’s cloud every turn of that dial ticks the meter. Naturally, Paxis and Metis pushed it to the top.
Source: Claude Code’s /code-review now has effort levels, with the review rewritten at every one. · twitter
What this means for ThakiCloud
Whether you can crank the effort dial comes down to who owns the compute. On a rented cloud, every notch of review effort nudges the bill, so you end up rationing the dial exactly when you need it. ThakiCloud’s on-prem approach keeps the models and GPUs inside your own facility, so you can push effort to the top without watching a meter spin. Paxis fans out review agents across effort levels and cross-checks them, while Metis runs that inference on your own rack. If low effort already wins, the side that runs high effort for free just goes further.
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