#token

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. The post Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90% appeared first on Spotify Engineering .

Spotify Engineering · EN

Why I tried to kill token billing (and why we kept it)

Token billing is useful infrastructure, but usually a bad customer-facing pricing model. Your invoice should define the value your product delivers, not break down what it cost you to create it.

Stripe Blog · EN

How does programming language affect token efficiency and correctness?

This somewhat widely cited post (I keep seeing it cited, anyway) suggests that dynamic languages and/or languages that represent things more concisely are more token efficient. It seems to be cited enough that LLM search results agree. For example, when I searched for "dynamic vs static language token cost" (no quotes), Google's AI summary opened with Dynamically typed languages generally have a lower LLM token cost than traditional statically typed languages because omitting explicit type declarations makes the code more compact. Google's AI cited the same post, which suggests that some conci

Dan Luu · EN