Pastagi is written for builders who are tired of benchmark theater. The site runs audits instead of announcements: a pricing audit put GPT-6 Astra at six dollars an hour and showed the arithmetic behind it, and a review of the TontaubeV1 text-to-speech model walked through serving math for a 2.9 billion parameter character-level system rather than posting vibes.
Three threads run through the catalog. Reasoning transparency: one piece tracks what happens when chain of thought gets compressed into a summary and the reasoning quietly disappears. Agent failure modes: another explains how AI agents leak sensitive data and what actually stops it. Evaluation discipline: a piece on prompt dependency graphs shows how mapping the blast radius of a prompt change shrinks the retest set before you burn a week of GPU time.
The custom silicon beat is not a product roundup. The inference chips piece argues custom AI chips are eating the GPU market and grounds the claim in the economics of serving, the same way the rest of the site grounds its claims. Everything published lands in one of six sections: guides, tools, engineering, use cases, news, and an archive of the older material.
Audits, verifiable math, skepticism toward benchmark claims: that is the editorial line, and it is on every page of pastagi.com.