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Notes from the Curlscape team on building production AI: agents, LLMs, evaluation, and applying AI to engineering and industrial problems.
Overcoming Automation Bottlenecks with Agentic AI

September 7, 2026

Overcoming Automation Bottlenecks with Agentic AI

Explore how agentic AI extends conventional engineering workflows, improving automation and adaptability while introducing new trade-offs in cost, control, and verification.

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Why surrogate models fail when the geometry changes

August 21, 2026

Why surrogate models fail when the geometry changes

The node count of the training mesh becomes a dimension of a learned weight matrix. Why conventional CFD surrogate models break when the geometry changes.

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Surrogate models: where millisecond predictions can be trusted

August 4, 2026

Surrogate models: where millisecond predictions can be trusted

A surrogate trained on a few hundred solver runs predicts your quantity of interest in milliseconds. It is reliable inside the envelope you sampled, and not outside it.

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Automation without verification just ships wrong answers faster

July 28, 2026

Automation without verification just ships wrong answers faster

A sign-convention error flipped a force-and-torque result in an automated simulation study. A verification agent caught it before the report shipped.

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Mistral API Pricing 2026: The Overlooked Budget Powerhouse

July 21, 2026

Mistral API Pricing 2026: The Overlooked Budget Powerhouse

July 2026 Mistral API pricing for every model — text, reasoning, code, vision, voice, and OCR — up to ~90% cheaper than OpenAI and Anthropic. See the breakdown.

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Google Gemini API Pricing Guide 2026: Flash, Pro, and Vertex AI

July 13, 2026

Google Gemini API Pricing Guide 2026: Flash, Pro, and Vertex AI

Current Google Gemini API pricing for 2026: Gemini 3 generation (3.1 Pro, 3.5 Flash, 3.1 Flash-Lite), what changed since 2.5, image generation with Nano Banana, and how Vertex AI costs compare.

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Anthropic Claude API Pricing Guide 2026: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku Compared

March 11, 2026

Anthropic Claude API Pricing Guide 2026: Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku Compared

Complete Anthropic Claude API pricing for March 2026. Compare Opus, Sonnet 4.6, and Haiku 4.5 with batch discounts, prompt caching savings, rate limits, and real-world cost breakdowns.

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Fine-tuning open models in the real world: Unsloth, Axolotl, and the case for Docker

March 3, 2026

Fine-tuning open models in the real world: Unsloth, Axolotl, and the case for Docker

Production lessons from fine-tuning open models and why Curlscape uses Docker to ensure GPU training environments are reproducible and reliable.

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OpenAI API Pricing Guide 2026: Every Model Compared

February 18, 2026

OpenAI API Pricing Guide 2026: Every Model Compared

Every OpenAI API model priced and compared for 2026, from GPT-5.2 to o4 Mini. Includes real-world cost calculations for chatbots, pipelines, and more.

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The Hidden Math of Text: A Guide to Quantitative Analysis

December 1, 2025

The Hidden Math of Text: A Guide to Quantitative Analysis

Analyze text quantitatively without LLMs — character distributions, structural patterns, and information density: the measurable statistical story in every document.

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Fine-Tune an LLM to Mask PII in 2 Hours with Axolotl — Step-by-Step Tutorial

October 8, 2025

Fine-Tune an LLM to Mask PII in 2 Hours with Axolotl — Step-by-Step Tutorial

Learn to fine-tune an LLM for PII redaction using Axolotl and Modal. Step-by-step tutorial covering QLoRA, dataset preparation, and production deployment for GDPR compliance.

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OpenAI vs Gemini vs Claude: Complete API Pricing Comparison (2026)

September 9, 2025

OpenAI vs Gemini vs Claude: Complete API Pricing Comparison (2026)

Compare API costs for OpenAI GPT-5, Google Gemini, and open-source models. See real pricing per 1M tokens, cost breakdowns for 1M document inference, and when self-hosting saves 5x.

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