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Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% by avazhi on Friday September 04, 2026 @10:37PM (#49572564)
Dang, not even Spotify care enough to not write AI slop articles.

We’re fucked.

Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% by blehn on Friday September 04, 2026 @11:16PM (#49572778)
To be fair, Spotify was a slop factory long before LLMs started doing it
Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% by prmoustache on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:16AM (#49573287)
They are in the business of selling audio slop streams, why are you surprised?
Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% by florians on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:20AM (#49573307)
True
Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% by stephbook on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:17AM (#49573294)
I could only read one sentence, then skipped to another paragraph. Sure enough the scroll bar revealed a suspiciously long article. No human would ever write this much bland bullshit.

Next sentence was also an AI juxtaposition. Done.

Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% by vagabund on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:19AM (#49573301)
Yeah, stopped reading after the first paragraph. It's really so disrespectful to your audience.
Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% by florians on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:19AM (#49573305)
It‘s someone from R&D probably not so official
Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% by lowbloodsugar on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:22AM (#49573317)
Spotify? The company pushing AI “music” into people’s feeds to save money on royalties? That Spotify?
Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% by pmontra on Saturday September 05, 2026 @02:48AM (#49573791)
I noticed

> The modes are the load-bearing piece:

Why do people write like LLMs? Maybe they delegate all the work to a LLM and don't have the time or the will to edit the copy. How about telling another LLMs to replace at least the most common LLM patterns with something human looking?

Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% by eterm on Saturday September 05, 2026 @05:46AM (#49574881)
I don't feel like this was a piece by someone who has used LLMs too much.

I'm fairly confident this is just LLM writing the majority, possibly tweaked by a human.

Opening line is a form of, "It's not X, it's Y": ".. isn't thinking. It's I/O".

Then the start of the second paragraph is that weird breathless kind of writing:

> 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.

More "It's not X, it's Y": The seat license isn't what hurts, it's the tokens.

The softly pressed insistence that AI is worth it, really: "The tooling pays for itself but only if..."

Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% by kristianp on Saturday September 05, 2026 @04:45AM (#49574569)
They should use their portal to de-claude the writing.