Jason Agostoni (@jagostoni) | Hashnode Toggle Sidebar Feed Pro Search Theme Sign in MoreDarkshift - a dark factory for softwareBug0 - The AI-native e2e QA regression testingThe foreword by Hashnode - official blog from the Hashnode teamPassmark - The open-source AI framework for regression testingHashnode gql skill - let your AI agent publish to your Hashnode blogHackathonsChangelogBrand@hashnode on XHashnode on LinkedInSupport - [email protected] of ConductTermsPrivacySitemap Search Hashnode Search posts, tags, users, and pages @jagostoni Jason Agostoni @jagostoni·Pittsburgh, USA·Joined March 2026 Principal Architect pursuing AI solutions Share About Principal Software Architect with nearly 30 years in the industry. Available for Nothing here yet. Jason Agostoni's blogs Jason Agostoni, Software Architectjason.agostoni.net13 posts About Principal Software Architect with nearly 30 years in the industry. Available for Nothing here yet. Jason Agostoni's blogs Jason Agostoni, Software Architectjason.agostoni.net13 posts ArticlesComments Recently published JAJason Agostoniinjason.agostoni.net·3h ago · 13 min read Can the Incredible Speed of a Diffusion LLM Accelerate Your SDLC? My Guess Is No, But Let's See Inception 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 o 00 JAJason Agostoniinjason.agostoni.net·Jul 31 · 12 min read Does 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 c 10 JAJason Agostoniinjason.agostoni.net·Jul 7 · 7 min read Agentic AI: Good Upfront Design Pays You Back Later I 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-str 42J JAJason Agostoniinjason.agostoni.net·Jun 15 · 12 min read Can 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 agains 01M JAJason Agostoniinjason.agostoni.net·Jun 1 · 13 min read Can the Mid-Tier Models Stack Up Against the Bigger Siblings? Can you really justify paying flagship prices when the mid-tier models may already be good enough? The original comparison started with Gemini 3 Flash vs. Claude Sonnet 4.6, then Gemini 3.5 Flash arri 10 Load more