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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Blocked by a Limit That Wasn't There
A worker in my Hayate Agent could stop a job by claiming a limit that did not exist, and the checker could not tell. Two pull requests now give the checker the host's own tool evidence and turn a false block into a correction for the same worker.
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A Bigger Model Is Not a Safety Gate
This morning, a pull request for my Hayate Agent's new step planner first told it to send routine credential rotation to the top model tier because it touches production. Fifteen minutes later that rule was replaced: pick the model by how hard the reasoning is, and leave safety to the gates that apply at every tier.
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The Pause Nobody Was Watching
A delegated job in my Hayate Agent ran out of checking rounds, was marked as paused, and the task waiting for it kept waiting with nobody in charge. Two fixes on Thursday give that kind of pause an owner without restarting the job, and keep a busy chat from starving that owner.
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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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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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