Re:Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%
by eterm on Saturday September 05, 2026 @05:46AM
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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..."
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..."