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title: "Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%"
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# Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%

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**Published:** 2026-09-04T23:38:50.000Z
**Category:** Products
**Topics:** anthropic, claude\-code, agent, infra

## Summary

Most of what an AI coding agent does for me isn't thinking\. It's I/O\.

## Sources

- [Discussion](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49571465>)