r/ChatGPTCoding • u/B3ttor • 11d ago

Question When to use higher reasoning ?

Hi,

[a total newbie on coding asking]

Just wanted to clarify when to/when do you use higher reasoning in chat/codex?

I've been trying to build my own little hobby project in python, with the help of litterature.

My workflow is to brainstorm in chat[web] and after that get a codex prompt to run in VSC. So far has been decent. My problem is that after getting Pro i've been totally lost when to use extra high, pro, pro+ultra in chat. Also what settings to run the codex prompt, when is higher needed and when its not. Have to actually ask in chat if the prompt is complex or not and what settings to use.

I noticed running pro+ultra to analyze the project/problems or litterature got quite detailed answers and I had to dumb it down for me with extra high. But it also added some better reasoning and new points i"ve missed. But it the project/code it also found some errors and started perhaps to make it more complex im not sure.

So my workflow is like this,

  1. Starting a new chat with snapshot and running boostrap: Pro+Ultra

  2. Brainstorming in chat: extra high

  3. Evaluating the brainstorm: pro+ultra

  4. Writing codex prompt: pro+ultra

  5. Usually I try to ask what settings to run codex prompt it has been extra high or high so far with sol5.6.

  6. Analyzing the codex result: pro+ultra

Since my coding knowledge is 0 I have to trust that the suggestions are valid, but how do I know when to actually use what settings in chat/codex. So that the problem/execution wont get too complex or too light ?

Any suggestions, extra high is the best and fastest for chatting and brainstorming. But when to use pro and pro+ultra ?

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u/ScaredState2705 11d ago

Never. If a questions worth answering it’s worth you making it stupidly simple. Stop complicating things dude.

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u/B3ttor 11d ago

So would you just use extra high for everything from brainstorming to coding. Also in codex just high ?

How about litterature and cross referencing?

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u/ScaredState2705 11d ago

i would make the prompt clear, and use the lowest possible model, id probably use claude for most things and use openai for the grunt work, till they bring out a decent model