What great productivity gains are Spotify achieving in making their product worse?
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%
#92What great productivity gains are Spotify achieving in making their product worse?
They released some AI related product for the desktop that was probably vibe coded and will not be installing
Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
#93AI-written page, and it gets worse as it goes on:
> The modes are the load-bearing piece:
lol
Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
#94I cut my Claude Code token usage by 100% by writing the code myself.
I cut my Claude Code token usage by 100% by writing the code with Qwen 27B on my own GPU.
Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
#95Does anyone even review these blog posts before they get published? If nobody in the company can be bothered to review it, I don't know why they expect anyone to persevere with the AIphorisms
Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
The creator (Eric Provencher) worked for Unity before that and he is exploring game development tooling etc (with an open token budget) its fun to see where things are heading in the on-demand future of handsfree blender output and animation
Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
#97I wish websites would stop messing with the scrolling behavior.
After seeing a few comments about scrolling on that page, curiosity got the better of me and I dared open TFA. I found no problem scrolling. Either Firefox on Android doesn't support whatever trickery they are doing, or they reverted it.
On desktop, it's basically forced heavy smoothscrolling, with an attempt to replicate real motion by gradually slowing to a stop. Horribly laggy for those of us sensitive to such things.
Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
#98What great productivity gains are Spotify achieving in making their product worse?
They released some AI related product for the desktop that was probably vibe coded and will not be installing
They are in my top-3~5 list of "actively & aggressively getting worse" software products.
Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
I used to date a girl who was a designer and had to plead with her that breaking behaviors I'm used to is not a positive UX. "But it adds motion" was the classic reply.
The question is, are we doing this page for the sake of art or are we doing this for the sake of spreading and sharing information? These are two different domains with different requirements as to how the page works. There is nothing wrong with art. It is a great thing, I hope to see more art in the world. However, if the goal is sharing information, which is supposedly the goal of a fairly large number of websites,…
Allow me to put it more bluntly: if you are feeling like an artist, don't meddle with UX.
The comment above shows this type of people don't understand it. Yet they are the ones getting hired due to formal qualification. Those who do are at the intersection of design, engineering and computer science. The latter give you enough experience to understand the culture to recreate familiar _look and feel_.
Re: Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
#100I wish websites would stop messing with the scrolling behavior.
After seeing a few comments about scrolling on that page, curiosity got the better of me and I dared open TFA. I found no problem scrolling. Either Firefox on Android doesn't support whatever trickery they are doing, or they reverted it.
It's still there when Javascript is enabled. Firefox/154.0 on desktop.