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Ask it to think —
the way a horn takes the room.

Some problems can't be played at first sight. They need a slow intro, a few bars of listening, then a long, considered solo. Tonight's feature is extended thinking: a single phrase that tells Claude Code to take its time before the first note.

The setlist for thinking.

Drop one of these phrases into your prompt and Claude Code unlocks a deeper reasoning budget before it acts. Each phrase is a different gear — pick the lightest one that solves the problem. More thinking isn't free; it's time on stage. Spend it where the audience leans in.

I. think warm-up. A measured pause before the downbeat. low
II. think hard the bridge — a longer take, more chord substitutions. mid
III. think harder the second chorus, eyes closed, no shortcuts. high
IV. ultrathink full set, the whole band trades fours — for the gnarly ones. max

Use it for what jazz players call head charts you can't sight-read — debugging behaviour that disagrees with the spec, weighing two architectures, untangling a migration with hidden order-of-operations. Skip it for routine refactors and one-file edits; Claude Code already plays those at tempo.

From the wings

"Don't play what's there. Play what's not there."

— Miles Davis

# prompt the band
claude "ultrathink this migration:
  there are two writers, one
  cron, and a feature flag.
  what breaks first?"

Track 01 · Tempo

Extended thinking trades latency for depth. A "think" prompt may take seconds longer; an "ultrathink" prompt, longer still. Plan for it like a guitar solo.

Track 02 · Tone

Pair it with Plan Mode for the heaviest charts — Claude listens first, sketches the arrangement, then plays a single take when you greenlight it.

Track 03 · Encore