I built TokenPatch to measure AI coding cost per applied patch

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I built TokenPatch to measure AI coding cost per applied patch AI coding tools are getting very useful, but I kept running into one problem: Expensive frontier models are often used for everything, including small file-scoped implementation patches. That feels wasteful. For many coding tasks, I want the strong model to stay in charge of planning and judgment, but I do not necessarily need it to write every narrow diff. So I built TokenPatch .

Published 23 May 2026

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I built TokenPatch to measure AI coding cost per applied patch AI coding tools are getting very useful, but I kept running into one problem: Expensive frontier models are often used for everything, including small file-scoped implementation patches. That feels wasteful. For many coding tasks, I want the strong model to stay in charge of planning and judgment, but I do not necessarily need it to write every narrow diff. So I built TokenPatch .
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