
engineering.atspotify.com
September 4, 2026
8 min read
48/100
Summary
Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% 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...