Claude vocabulary
Adaptive / Extended thinking
Definition
A mode that gives an AI more reasoning time for difficult or multi-step problems.
Visual example
Simmering sauce = extended thinking
The kitchen connection
Think of letting a complex sauce simmer.
The illustration connects the AI idea to something familiar. Follow the subject, the action, and the result to see how it works.
- 01 · Who or what
- Simmering sauce = extended thinking
- 02 · What happens
- Uses more time for reasoning
- 03 · The result
- Handles harder problems carefully
Why it matters
It gives difficult problems more reasoning time when a quick answer is not enough.