JAJason Agostoniinjason.agostoni.net·1h ago · 11 min readAre You Using the Best Models for Your Agentic SDLC?Picking a model on just a single factor (retail price, benchmark scores, industry hype) rarely predicts the true cost or quality of agentic development. I had a project that required an agentic develo00
JAJason Agostoniinjason.agostoni.net·Aug 15 · 13 min readCan the Incredible Speed of a Diffusion LLM Accelerate Your SDLC? My Guess Is No, But Let's SeeInception Labs recently bumped their free tier to 100 million tokens, which triggered my curiosity: what happens if you run a diffusion-based language model (which generates text in parallel instead o10
JAJason Agostoniinjason.agostoni.net·Jul 31 · 12 min readDoes Grok 4.5 Deliver Opus Results at a Fraction of the Price?Can Grok 4.5 deliver an Opus-class agentic coding result without the premium frontier price tag? I ran Ship-Bench against Grok 4.5 using Grok Build to find out, looking at whether xAI’s latest model c10
JAJason Agostoniinjason.agostoni.net·Jul 7 · 7 min readAgentic AI: Good Upfront Design Pays You Back LaterI spend a lot of time preaching architecture and constraints, so it is always nice when a side project gives me receipts. Adding this new feature to DumbQuestion.ai was a good reminder that a well-str42J
JAJason Agostoniinjason.agostoni.net·Jun 15 · 12 min readCan Fable 5 Finish Off the Other Frontiers?Can Anthropic's Fable 5 justify its staggering cost and live up to the massive hype to unseat the top specialized models? I ran Ship-Bench against the model to find out, stacking it up directly agains01M
