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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%

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Post by CharlesW »

florians wrote: post #39
CharlesW wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very standard in all coding harnesses/models I've worked with, with the bonus that everything listed in the "What doesn't work in Portal by Spotify" section still works. I've been watching Opus spin off work to Fable and Sonnet as appropriate all day.

Can you name some harnesses?

As I type this, my main is Claude Code and my secondary is omp. Both of these seem to do a pretty good job of choosing an appropriate model for subagent tasks, especially if I ask and/or save it as a guideline in project memory.

Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%

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Post by schainks »

andrew_mason1 wrote: post #164
schainks wrote: post #61

It takes true corporate dedication to publish technical thought leadership on a page that actively fights your ability to read it.

I don't get why all your replies are on the AI language. Yeah the AI-isms suck and are obvious but is no one else bothered by how this page scrolls?

Custom scroll implementation just screams AI schlop on top of the schlop that's on the page.

Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%

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Post by schainks »

hotelsacher wrote: post #143
schainks wrote: post #61

It takes true corporate dedication to publish technical thought leadership on a page that actively fights your ability to read it.

Corporate dedication has been replaced by slop generators, as promised. They did say they'd make all the jobs obsolete.

"schloperators" for short, right?

Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%

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Post by gopher_space »

astrange wrote: post #137
johnnythujone wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have a stage-gated workflow that prioritizes “premium” token efficiency (Fable.) and getting the most out of my subscription services. (Which boils down to Fable running carefully prompted deepseek-flash agent teams that defer back to the managing agent for any design decisions in most work.) As part of that workflow the manager uses cheap reconnaissance agents to burn their tokens in order to build relevant repo c…

> I have a stage-gated workflow This is a Claudism, right? I feel like I never saw "gated" used this way before it.

A normal person would say “my workflow has stages” and their normal coworkers would say “no kidding”.

Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%

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Post by hasteg »

SaltyBackendGuy wrote: post #117
hasteg wrote: post #114

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My favorite part about the desktop app is the 1 second delay between when I click a playlist and when it actually loads.

You just need to have a M5, 128gi setup to get sub 1 sec playlist loads /s

Right… unfortunately my 9800x3d and 5090 setup can’t process a 15 year old desktop app transition in under a second even though they have a coding god making all their decisions hahah
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