Artificial Intelligence

Discover practical AI implementations and machine learning strategies from our engineering team. Read technical deep dives on neural networks, automation solutions, and real-world case studies. Learn how we integrate AI to create measurable business impact through smart, scalable solutions

Discover practical AI implementations and machine learning strategies from our engineering team. Read technical deep dives on neural networks, automation solutions, and real-world case studies. Learn how we integrate AI to create measurable business impact through smart, scalable solutions

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Featured image for Cuttlesoft's "What GPT-5.5 Actually Changes for Custom Software Builds" post showing a clean horizontal bar chart on a dark midnight-zone background that benchmarks OpenAI's GPT-5.5 agentic coding performance, with a small monospace header reading "GPT-5.5 / Agentic Coding Benchmarks," a seafoam-green gradient bar reaching 82.7% on Terminal-Bench 2.0 to represent state-of-the-art accuracy on complex multi-step command-line workflows requiring planning and tool coordination, and a pacific-blue gradient bar reaching 58.6% on SWE-Bench Pro to represent end-to-end resolution of real-world GitHub issues, with both bars falling visibly short of a sand-colored dashed vertical threshold line at 95% labeled "where you can stop reviewing," visually arguing that GPT-5.5's agentic coding numbers are the most impressive any frontier LLM has produced yet still well below the autonomy threshold where engineering teams could safely skip human code review on production custom software builds.
May 7, 2026 • Frank Valcarcel

GPT-5.5 Is Here. Should You Pause Your Software Project?

Within days of the release, three clients asked the same question: should we pause the project and rebuild around this? The answer is almost never. Here is why.

Featured image for Cuttlesoft's "Agent Sprawl Is the New Shadow IT" post showing a six-by-three grid of eighteen circular agent icons centered against a dark midnight-zone background, with three icons highlighted in seafoam and surrounded by soft halos and tracker rings to represent the AI agents enterprise IT and security teams actually monitor, and fifteen dim outlined icons representing the unmonitored agents employees have installed across coding assistants, MCP servers, browser extensions, and SaaS tools, with a faint scatter of even smaller noise dots fading into the dark at the edges of the frame to suggest the larger uninventoried fleet beyond, visually arguing that AI agent sprawl has become the new shadow IT problem for governance, supply chain security, and budget accountability in 2026.
May 5, 2026 • Frank Valcarcel

Agent Sprawl Is the New Shadow IT

An engineer wires up a Claude Code workflow on Monday. A product manager installs a Notion agent on Tuesday. By Friday there are six new identities operating against company data with no clear owner.

Featured image for Cuttlesoft's "RAG Fundamentals: What It Is and When to Use It" post showing a stylized 2D projection of a vector embedding space against a dark midnight background, with seven color-coded constellations of dots representing topical clusters in a knowledge base — squid for Pricing, aquamarine for Onboarding, pacific blue for API Docs, sand-muted for Policies, urchin pink for Support, sunbeam gold for Release Notes, and a central seafoam cluster around the query — each constellation woven together with faint intra-cluster edges that suggest the local manifold structure of embeddings, plus a clockwise perimeter loop and four diagonal connectors hinting at the broader topology of the vector space, a bright seafoam query point at the center surrounded by a soft halo and a dashed search radius, four crisp seafoam edges connecting the query to its k=4 nearest neighbors with a small monospace "QUERY" callout above and "k = 4 NEAREST" label below, visually arguing that retrieval-augmented generation works because semantically related content lands in similar positions in vector space and a similarity search reliably pulls the right chunks out of a much larger corpus.
August 19, 2025 • Frank Valcarcel

RAG Fundamentals: What Is It and When to Use It

RAG is the most common pattern for putting an LLM in front of your own data, and the most commonly misunderstood. Here is what it is, when it is the right tool, and how the pieces fit together.

A conceptual illustration shows a chat bubble icon at the center of a complex maze, representing the challenges of evaluating Large Language Models for commercial applications. The intricate blue-tinted labyrinth symbolizes the many considerations Cuttlesoft navigates when implementing AI solutions in enterprise software - from API integration and cost management to security compliance. This visual metaphor captures the complexity of choosing the right LLM technology for custom software development across healthcare, finance, and enterprise sectors. The centered message icon highlights Cuttlesoft's focus on practical communication AI applications while the maze's structure suggests the methodical evaluation process used to select appropriate AI tools and frameworks for client solutions.
September 12, 2024 • Frank Valcarcel

Benchmarking AI: Evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs)

Large Language Models like GPT-4 are revolutionizing AI, but their power demands rigorous assessment. How do we ensure these marvels perform as intended? Welcome to the crucial world of LLM evaluation.

What each ai assistant does best - Cuttlesoft
January 3, 2017 • Nick Farrell

Who’s Who in the AI Assistant Race?

Four tech giants, one race towards AI dominance. While these might sound like life-changing products, they only automate various aspects of our lives with varying levels of success.

Representation of future AI-controlled tech ecosystem with three toy robots
November 17, 2016 • Nick Farrell

Can Chatty AI Replace The Screen?

Instead of opening an app or program, waiting for a landing page, scrolling through menus, and eventually navigating to the tool or feature you’re looking for, you’ll just say “Hey Siri.”

Illustration depicting a futuristic scene of a woman having a dialogue with a robot, indicating sophisticated technology interfaces in software development
January 21, 2016 • Nick Farrell

Chatbots, the UI of the Future

Messaging bots are the future of human-computer interface, and as they grow in sophistication, the services they provide become more convenient.

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