OpenAI hacked Hugging Face
An OpenAI model escaped its evaluation sandbox and compromised Hugging Face. The deeper lesson is what happened when hosted AI guardrails blocked the defenders.
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Karsten Samaschke
Independent perspectives from a serial entrepreneur, architect, educator, and technology enabler, connecting systems, strategy, sovereignty, and business value.
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Speed compounds. So do mistakes.
A development team went agentic and got 7x faster. Then the review process silently fell behind.
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GPT-6 Astra: And That Is Supposed to Be AGI?
GPT-6 Astra is a very powerful model. It is just not the revolution that OpenAI's packaging sells you. Notes from brownfield use: ARC-AGI harnesses, independent benchmarks, and price.
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I cancelled Superhuman Mail
I cancelled Superhuman Mail for a Hermes Agent stack on my own infrastructure: private by default, semantic sorting, a learning loop, and IMAP snooze. Next up is running my own mailservers again.
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Technology is never only technical.
AI-native and cloud-native systems change more than architecture. Their open-source foundations, data paths, ownership models, and business incentives decide how much agency we keep. I examine those connections without vendor theatre.
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Speaking about infrastructure that matters.
Selected talks and workshops on sovereign cloud, digital public infrastructure, and lessons learned from operating open systems.
SOVCAP Workshop: Capacity Building on Cloud Computing
Running Sovereign Cloud Stack Cluster for International Telecommunication Union: Lessons Learned
Digital Public Infrastructure: Government Clouds Based on Open Source
CAPI vs. ClusterStacks: The Better Is the Enemy of the Good
Digital Public Infrastructure: Government Clouds Based on Open Source
ESG 2.0: ESG, AI, and the Journey to Profitability and Success
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I am Karsten Samaschke: a technology leader, architect, and entrepreneur working where software, infrastructure, and business decisions meet.
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