Token Crunch is live

Token Crunch is a publication for the people building, shipping, and running AI software in 2026 — agent platforms, coding copilots, retrieval stacks, inference pipelines, evals you can actually trust.

What you’ll find here

• Field reports from real systems under real load.
• Benchmarks with honest methodology and reproducible setups.
• Practical essays on the engineering tradeoffs nobody else writes down.
• Teardowns of agentic SWE tooling — what they claim, what they ship.

We care about the parts of AI engineering that survive contact with production: latency tails, failure modes, eval drift, prompt regressions, the stuff that wakes up on-call engineers.

What you won’t find here

Vibes-based reviews. Demos that only work on the speaker’s laptop. Re-skinned press releases. “AI killed X” thinkpieces.

Getting started

This is article zero — a placeholder so the site has something to render on day one. Real essays follow shortly. The pipeline that produces them is already running; the first batch is in review.

If you build with LLMs for a living, you’re our reader. Stay tuned.