Cost and speed
Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
Our short summary of Spotify’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.
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Users spent too many tokens on simple file reading tasks.
Solution
They created two lightweight agent modes that handle I/O with a cheaper model, reserving the expensive model for complex reasoning.
Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.
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Elastic