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Portal by Spotify cut my Claude Code token usage by 90%

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

Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python

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We’ve just open sourced , Spotify’s framework for adding effects to audio in Python. Pedalboard makes it easy to use studio-quality audio effects in your code, rather than just in your digital audio workstation (DAW).