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Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
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Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Try it yourself, use a big model like Opus or Sol to implement everything by first making a plan using plan mode. When I do this, I can have it use cheap subagents with models like Luna to read the relevant files.
Do you have the cheap models summarize the files? How do they get the relevant information to the bigger models?
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Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
#63STOP hijacking my scroll. I don't know why chrome even allow such behavior? And, I can't believe this is from official spotify.... What a joke.
Smooth as butter with Firefox on Android. As for why scrolljacking is "allowed", web devs will always find new ways to do annoying things and work around browser constraints.
I confirm that. Then I opened the page in Chrome on Android and it scrolls nicely there too. So maybe they broke only desktop browsers.
Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
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Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
#65Dang, not even Spotify care enough to not write AI slop articles. We’re fucked.
They should use their portal to de-claude the writing.
Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
#66So this is just delegating certain work to dumber models? I certainly wouldn't use Gemini 2.5 Flash (!!?) for code writing as suggested. I've never had an issue with Codex or Claude reading massive files, they're really good at precise greps.
> I've never had an issue with Codex or Claude reading massive files Reading files isn't a problem they want to solve. The idea seems to be using a cheaper model to "scout" for the intended code, instead of an expensive one that reads all the things (and spends more tokens / thinks about them). I think this might be useful because Opus 5 especially tends to over-read. So this looks like an "LLM Bloom filter", telling…
This sounds exactly like what Repoprompt was built for: https://repoprompt.com/
The community edition was open sourced when the creator got hired by OpenAI a few months ago.
Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pretty sure claude code already delegates reading a large codebase to haiku subagents.
As of July, the explore agent inherits the parent model, capped at opus. So fable and opus use opus to explore. Sonnet uses sonnet. I replaced my built in explore agent with one hardcoded to sonnet low effort. https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/72940
It did used to use Haiku but that model is now too too far behind…
Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
#68So this is just delegating certain work to dumber models? I certainly wouldn't use Gemini 2.5 Flash (!!?) for code writing as suggested. I've never had an issue with Codex or Claude reading massive files, they're really good at precise greps.
Thank you, the article was so verbose I couldn't get the point just by skimming it. And it was this simple...
Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
#69Dang, not even Spotify care enough to not write AI slop articles. We’re fucked.
I noticed > The modes are the load-bearing piece: Why do people write like LLMs? Maybe they delegate all the work to a LLM and don't have the time or the will to edit the copy. How about telling another LLMs to replace at least the most common LLM patterns with something human looking?
I don't feel like this was a piece by someone who has used LLMs too much.
I'm fairly confident this is just LLM writing the majority, possibly tweaked by a human.
Opening line is a form of, "It's not X, it's Y": ".. isn't thinking. It's I/O".
Then the start of the second paragraph is that weird breathless kind of writing:
> Reading five files to answer a question about one method. Generating a test file that follows the exact same pattern as the twenty test files next to it.
More "It's not X, it's Y": The seat license isn't what hurts, it's the tokens.
The softly pressed insistence that AI is worth it, really: "The tooling pays for itself but only if..."
Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
#70I want a local model that I talk to, and that delegates work to whatever model it deems adequate, simplifying and perhaps even anonymizing the prompts/data as it goes.