Custom Software Development Insights
60 articles on Custom Software Development from the Creuto engineering and product team: practical guides, trends, and lessons from building real software.
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ChatGPT Pro allowance halves on 30 October, same price
From 30 October the $200 Pro plan's Work and Codex allowance drops from 20x Plus to 10x, at the same price. The question is not whether that is fair, but whether your team was anywhere near the old ceiling.
Akash Mohapatra
Oct 2, 2026
npm package source map leak: audit what your build ships
A 59.8 MB source map shipped inside a published npm package and exposed 512,000 lines of TypeScript. Nobody was hacked. Here is the release gate that inspects the artefact instead of the repository.
Akash Mohapatra
Oct 2, 2026
Next.js 16.3.8: seven fixes and a self-hosting question
Next.js 16.3.8 and 15.5.27 close seven vulnerabilities, and nearly every one is scoped by a configuration choice you already made. Here is which ones apply to you, and how to check in ten minutes.
Akash Mohapatra
Oct 2, 2026
SAP ECC end of maintenance: S/4HANA is not the only answer
Mainstream maintenance for SAP ERP 6.0 ends at the close of 2027 and extended maintenance at the close of 2030, but ECC does not switch off on either date. A mid-market view of the four real routes.
Akash Mohapatra
Oct 2, 2026
EU AI Act Article 50: the two dates for labelling AI content
Article 50 transparency duties have applied since 2 August 2026. The widely quoted 2 December date is a narrower thing: a transition window for systems already on the market, covering machine-readable marking only.
Akash Mohapatra
Oct 1, 2026
The agentic web: your second audience does not click
More than half of internet traffic is no longer human. Here is what AI agents actually fetch from a page, what the vendor data says they give back, and the short list of site changes worth making now.
Akash Mohapatra
Oct 1, 2026
Superintelligence business strategy: what to do this year
Strip the forecasting out of the superintelligence debate and a planning question remains. Here is the two-by-two we use to sort AI roadmap decisions, and the three engagements we refuse to sell.
Akash Mohapatra
Oct 1, 2026
Vinext 1.0: running Next.js on Vite, deploy anywhere
Cloudflare's Vinext 1.0 runs a Next.js app on Vite and deploys it to Workers, Node or Nitro presets. The compatibility headline is 99%; the dashboard says 96.0%. Here is which number applies to you.
Akash Mohapatra
Sep 29, 2026
When to build your own database: Perplexity dropped DynamoDB
Perplexity replaced DynamoDB with a Rust key-value store and cut median batch reads from 31.4ms to 5.60ms. Here is the test for whether that decision applies to you, and why for almost every team it does not.
Akash Mohapatra
Sep 26, 2026
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