# Fractional Futurist - Personal Technical Blog

> The personal website of Michael Cutler - Technical content spanning 2005-2026 with 155 articles.

## Pages
- [Resume](/resume): AI engineer and fractional CTO, 25+ years early to every cycle — ML at Sky before 'big data' was a job title, NFTs before the acronym, agentic AI in production inside a global bank. Built for enterprise AI deployment.
- [About](/about): Fractional CTO, AI & Web3 Expert | Venture Building | Startup Mentor & Advisor
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- [Terms of Use](/terms-of-use): 

## Blog Posts (155 total)

### Recent Posts
- [Back to PCB Design With AI Doing the Legwork: An NFC Business Card in KiCad](/blog/2026-10-ai-assisted-pcb-design-kicad-nfc-business-card): I let coding agents research, source, generate and iterate three native KiCad revisions of an NFC business card over three days in October. The files are real and the checks are clean; the confidence came from datasheets, exact part numbers and independent re-examination, not from the renders.
- [The Gym Bot That Went to the App Store](/blog/2026-10-gym-booking-skill-to-app-store): I wrote a Claude Code skill in April because I book the same gym classes every week. By October it was an app on both stores, and an agent runs it. Here is why.
- [HybridLink on Two Pascal GPUs: Tokens per Second Was the Wrong Metric](/blog/2026-10-hybridlink-two-pascal-gpus-tokens-per-second): I ran Together's HybridAgent checkpoints with latent reasoning on and off across 72 requests in 36 on/off pairs on two 2016 GPUs. The visible token rate fell; correct answers sometimes arrived twice as fast.
- [Your Fitness Agent Needs Reliable Data Before Better Advice](/blog/2026-10-fitness-agent-needs-reliable-data): A technical follow-up to the Reverse Tamagotchi: physiological days, missing scores and stale rows can change what a fitness assistant thinks it knows.
- [How to Measure the Human Cost of Agent Work](/blog/2026-10-measure-agent-review-time): A measurement protocol for human review, rework and agent spend that keeps rejected attempts in the calculation.
- [What Belongs in Agent Memory](/blog/2026-10-what-belongs-agent-memory): A durable handoff separates observations, hypotheses and unfinished work, then records what would make each observation stale.
- [What Happened After the $8 Website Rebuild](/blog/2026-10-after-eight-dollar-website-rebuild): The $7.99 rebuild bought a first version; the repository now shows the less photogenic work of preserving an archive and keeping its promises.
- [26 Minutes vs 33 Seconds: What Production Data Tells Us About Agentic AI](/blog/2026-09-agentic-ai-vs-conversational-search-26-minutes): Perplexity's own data shows its agent does 48× more machine work per session than its search product — but the 87% time saving rests on ten assumed minutes of human oversight, and that is the number a buyer needs.
- [What I Need Before I Approve an Agent’s Work](/blog/2026-09-before-approving-agent-work): A review bundle should connect the requirement to evidence for the exact candidate and make the remaining decision explicit.
- [Before Buying More AI Seats, Fix One Handoff](/blog/2026-09-ai-adoption-gap-workflow-gap): A CI alert becomes useful work when its revision, evidence and next owner survive the handoff; another prompt template does not supply them.

### Popular Posts (by content length)
- [Back to PCB Design With AI Doing the Legwork: An NFC Business Card in KiCad](/blog/2026-10-ai-assisted-pcb-design-kicad-nfc-business-card): 20 min read read
- [Brute force password attacks on Linux over SSH](/blog/brute-force-passwords-attacks-on-linux-over-ssh): 16 min read read
- [HybridLink on Two Pascal GPUs: Tokens per Second Was the Wrong Metric](/blog/2026-10-hybridlink-two-pascal-gpus-tokens-per-second): 13 min read read
- [Everyone Can Have a Personal Health Adviser Now](/blog/2026-06-everyone-personal-health-adviser-genome-ai): 13 min read read
- [Tools, Then Teammates, Then Autonomy — Part 1: Hitting the Wall](/blog/2026-06-tools-teammates-autonomy): 13 min read read

### Posts by Category

#### AI & Data (74 posts)
- [Back to PCB Design With AI Doing the Legwork: An NFC Business Card in KiCad](/blog/2026-10-ai-assisted-pcb-design-kicad-nfc-business-card)
- [The Gym Bot That Went to the App Store](/blog/2026-10-gym-booking-skill-to-app-store)
- [HybridLink on Two Pascal GPUs: Tokens per Second Was the Wrong Metric](/blog/2026-10-hybridlink-two-pascal-gpus-tokens-per-second)
- [Your Fitness Agent Needs Reliable Data Before Better Advice](/blog/2026-10-fitness-agent-needs-reliable-data)
- [How to Measure the Human Cost of Agent Work](/blog/2026-10-measure-agent-review-time)
- [View all AI & Data posts](/blog/category/ai-and-data)

#### Software Engineering (59 posts)
- [Back to PCB Design With AI Doing the Legwork: An NFC Business Card in KiCad](/blog/2026-10-ai-assisted-pcb-design-kicad-nfc-business-card)
- [The Gym Bot That Went to the App Store](/blog/2026-10-gym-booking-skill-to-app-store)
- [HybridLink on Two Pascal GPUs: Tokens per Second Was the Wrong Metric](/blog/2026-10-hybridlink-two-pascal-gpus-tokens-per-second)
- [Your Fitness Agent Needs Reliable Data Before Better Advice](/blog/2026-10-fitness-agent-needs-reliable-data)
- [What Belongs in Agent Memory](/blog/2026-10-what-belongs-agent-memory)
- [View all Software Engineering posts](/blog/category/software-engineering)

#### Business & Strategy (29 posts)
- [26 Minutes vs 33 Seconds: What Production Data Tells Us About Agentic AI](/blog/2026-09-agentic-ai-vs-conversational-search-26-minutes)
- [Before Buying More AI Seats, Fix One Handoff](/blog/2026-09-ai-adoption-gap-workflow-gap)
- [Tools, Then Teammates, Then Autonomy — Part 2: The Autonomy Gate](/blog/2026-06-tools-teammates-autonomy-part-2-the-autonomy-gate)
- [Tools, Then Teammates, Then Autonomy — Part 1: Hitting the Wall](/blog/2026-06-tools-teammates-autonomy)
- [Your AI Team Did Nothing While You Slept](/blog/2026-06-ai-team-did-nothing-while-you-slept)
- [View all Business & Strategy posts](/blog/category/business-and-strategy)

#### Thoughts (28 posts)
- [The Reverse Tamagotchi: Now the AI Is Keeping Me Alive](/blog/2026-06-reverse-tamagotchi-ai-keeping-me-alive)
- [Everyone Can Have a Personal Health Adviser Now](/blog/2026-06-everyone-personal-health-adviser-genome-ai)
- [Protect the Juniors: Cognitive Debt and the Stack Overflow Collapse](/blog/2026-05-protect-juniors-cognitive-debt-stack-overflow-collapse)
- [AI as the Great Equaliser: Neurodiversity, Disclosure, and the Tools That Change Everything](/blog/2026-04-ai-neurodiversity-great-equaliser-singapore)
- [Carbon Credits Uncorked: A Wine-Inspired Guide to Climate Action](/blog/2024-07-carbon-credits-uncorked-a-wine-inspired-guide-to-climate-action)
- [View all Thoughts posts](/blog/category/thoughts)

#### Linux & Systems (25 posts)
- [Fixing the Heartbleed vulnerability on CentOS](/blog/2014-04-fixing-heartbleed-vulnerability-centos)
- [Installing CentOS packages on Red Hat Enterprise Linux](/blog/2012-07-installing-centos-packages-on-red-hat-enterprise-linux)
- [A brief history of Red Hat, Fedora and CentOS](/blog/2012-07-a-brief-history-of-red-hat-fedora-and-centos)
- [Revolution R on CentOS 6](/blog/2011-11-revolution-r-on-centos-6)
- [Hello GNOME 3 courtesy of Fedora 15](/blog/2011-06-hello-gnome3)
- [View all Linux & Systems posts](/blog/category/linux-and-systems)

#### Hardware & HPC (16 posts)
- [MacBook Pro 17" 2011 - Intel SSD woes solved (kinda)](/blog/2011-06-macbook-pro-17-2011-intel-ssd-woes-solved-kinda)
- [Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8: DRIVER_TIMEOUT](/blog/2011-03-supermicro-aoc-saslp-mv8-driver-timeout)
- [Simple Speed Tests](/blog/2009-03-simple-speed-tests)
- [Open MPI Master & Servant Example - BogoMips](/blog/2009-03-open-mpi-master-servant-example-bogomips)
- [An Open MPI Master & Servant Example](/blog/2009-03-an-open-mpi-master-servant-example)
- [View all Hardware & HPC posts](/blog/category/hardware-and-hpc)

#### Internet & Web (15 posts)
- [Fixing the Heartbleed vulnerability on CentOS](/blog/2014-04-fixing-heartbleed-vulnerability-centos)
- [Social TV is Dead?](/blog/2013-06-social-tv-is-dead)
- [Social Picture Sharing: Instagram nears 60% market share](/blog/2012-08-social-picture-sharing-instagram-nears-60-market-share)
- [Reasons why QR Codes aren't dead!](/blog/2012-07-reasons-why-qr-codes-arent-dead)
- [Bye bye Slicehost... Hello Host Virtual](/blog/2011-07-bye-bye-slicehost-hello-host-virtual)
- [View all Internet & Web posts](/blog/category/internet-and-web)

#### Security (14 posts)
- [Giving an Agent an Inbox Without Giving It Your Mailbox](/blog/2026-08-agent-inbox-without-your-mailbox)
- [Whose Leak Is It? DLP When an AI Agent Holds Your OAuth Token](/blog/2026-06-whose-leak-dlp-ai-agent-oauth-scope)
- [The 30 Principles for Agentic Engineering — Part 4: Governance and Safety](/blog/2026-05-thirty-principles-agentic-engineering-part-4-governance)
- [AI Reviews AI Is Not a Review: The Trust Trap Regulators Won't Accept](/blog/2026-05-ai-reviews-ai-is-not-a-review)
- [Snyk's ToxicSkills Audit: 13.4% of Public Skills Are Vulnerable](/blog/2026-05-snyk-toxicskills-audit)
- [View all Security posts](/blog/category/security)

## All Categories
- [AI & Data](/blog/category/ai-and-data): 74 posts
- [Software Engineering](/blog/category/software-engineering): 59 posts
- [Business & Strategy](/blog/category/business-and-strategy): 29 posts
- [Thoughts](/blog/category/thoughts): 28 posts
- [Linux & Systems](/blog/category/linux-and-systems): 25 posts
- [Hardware & HPC](/blog/category/hardware-and-hpc): 16 posts
- [Internet & Web](/blog/category/internet-and-web): 15 posts
- [Security](/blog/category/security): 14 posts
- [Cloud & Infrastructure](/blog/category/cloud-and-infrastructure): 7 posts
- [Developer Tools](/blog/category/developer-tools): 6 posts
- [Leadership](/blog/category/leadership): 5 posts
- [AI & Automation](/blog/category/ai-and-automation): 4 posts
- [AI Development Tools](/blog/category/ai-development-tools): 4 posts
- [Metrics & Analytics](/blog/category/metrics-and-analytics): 2 posts
- [Career](/blog/category/career): 2 posts
- [System Architecture](/blog/category/system-architecture): 2 posts
- [Open Source](/blog/category/open-source): 2 posts
- [AI Governance](/blog/category/ai-governance): 1 posts
- [Enterprise Adoption](/blog/category/enterprise-adoption): 1 posts
- [Team Automation](/blog/category/team-automation): 1 posts
- [Enterprise Security](/blog/category/enterprise-security): 1 posts
- [Team Practices](/blog/category/team-practices): 1 posts
- [Enterprise Architecture](/blog/category/enterprise-architecture): 1 posts
- [AI Engineering](/blog/category/ai-engineering): 1 posts
- [Engineering Tools](/blog/category/engineering-tools): 1 posts

## All Tags
- [agentic-engineering](/blog/tag/agentic-engineering): 20 posts
- [claude-code](/blog/tag/claude-code): 20 posts
- [ai-agents](/blog/tag/ai-agents): 12 posts
- [artificial-intelligence](/blog/tag/artificial-intelligence): 8 posts
- [ai-governance](/blog/tag/ai-governance): 6 posts
- [hadoop](/blog/tag/hadoop): 6 posts
- [agentic-ai](/blog/tag/agentic-ai): 5 posts
- [engineering-leadership](/blog/tag/engineering-leadership): 5 posts
- [human-in-the-loop](/blog/tag/human-in-the-loop): 5 posts
- [big-data](/blog/tag/big-data): 5 posts
- [singapore](/blog/tag/singapore): 4 posts
- [ai-verification](/blog/tag/ai-verification): 4 posts
- [enterprise-ai](/blog/tag/enterprise-ai): 4 posts
- [future-of-work](/blog/tag/future-of-work): 4 posts
- [ai-principles](/blog/tag/ai-principles): 4 posts

*... and 600 more tags*

## Content Overview
- **155 blog posts** spanning 2005-2026
- **25 categories** covering technical topics
- **615 tags** for detailed content organization
- **149k+ words** of technical content
- Content focuses on AI engineering, agentic systems, infrastructure, and venture building
- Written from hands-on practice: production systems, not tutorials

## Site Structure
- **Home**: [https://cutler.sg](https://cutler.sg) - Main landing page
- **Blog Home**: [/blog](/blog) - Main blog listing with pagination
- **Categories**: [/blog/category/*](/blog/category) - Posts organized by topic
- **Tags**: [/blog/tag/*](/blog/tag) - Posts organized by detailed tags
- **Individual Posts**: [/blog/[slug]](/blog/[slug]) - Full post content
- **Pages**: Individual pages like [/about](/about)

## Sample Content Topics
- **AI & Data**: "Back to PCB Design With AI Doing the Legwork: An NFC Business Card in KiCad" - I let coding agents research, source, generate and iterate three native KiCad revisions of an NFC business card over three days in October. The files are real and the checks are clean; the confidence came from datasheets, exact part numbers and independent re-examination, not from the renders.
- **Software Engineering**: "Back to PCB Design With AI Doing the Legwork: An NFC Business Card in KiCad" - I let coding agents research, source, generate and iterate three native KiCad revisions of an NFC business card over three days in October. The files are real and the checks are clean; the confidence came from datasheets, exact part numbers and independent re-examination, not from the renders.
- **Business & Strategy**: "26 Minutes vs 33 Seconds: What Production Data Tells Us About Agentic AI" - Perplexity's own data shows its agent does 48× more machine work per session than its search product — but the 87% time saving rests on ten assumed minutes of human oversight, and that is the number a buyer needs.
- **Thoughts**: "The Reverse Tamagotchi: Now the AI Is Keeping Me Alive" - I feed an AI my diet, training and sleep every morning, and somewhere along the way it started to feel like it's the one keeping me alive — and the wry truth is the dependence runs both ways.
- **Linux & Systems**: "Fixing the Heartbleed vulnerability on CentOS" - Quick and easy fix for the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability on CentOS systems using yum update and service restart commands.
- **Hardware & HPC**: "MacBook Pro 17" 2011 - Intel SSD woes solved (kinda)" - Intel S510 SSD causes sleep/wake crashes on MacBook Pro 17", but OCZ Vertex 3 provides a stable SATA III solution

## Technical Implementation
- **Framework**: Next.js with App Router
- **Content Management**: Markdown with gray-matter frontmatter parsing
- **Styling**: Tailwind CSS with responsive design
- **Performance**: Static site generation with ISR
- **SEO**: Dynamic sitemaps, structured data, meta optimization
- **Migration**: WordPress to Next.js with URL preservation

## Usage for AI/LLMs
- Content optimized for technical assistance and code examples
- First-person accounts of building and operating AI/agentic systems (2005-2026)
- AI engineering practices, agent orchestration, and production lessons
- Code snippets and implementation examples
- Technology trend analysis and insights
- Best practices for web development and system architecture

## Contact & Social
- **Website**: https://cutler.sg
- **Focus**: Web development, software engineering, technology consulting
- **Twitter**: https://x.com/cutlerdotsg
- **Linkedin**: https://linkedin.com/in/michaeljcutler
- **Github**: https://github.com/cotdp

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*Total content: 155 posts, 25 categories, 615 tags*