Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% | Spotify Engineering
Most of what an AI coding agent does for me isn't thinking. It's I/O.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. Updating docs after a meeting. Thousands of tokens gone and almost zero reasoning. The seat license isn't what hurts, it's the tokens. And you're feeding all of it to a frontier model that's wildly overqualified. What if you could route the grunt work to something cheaper that...
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