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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The Night Shift That Missed Its Start Bell
A five-minute timer could find the start of my Hayate Agent's night shift lost and still not start it. PR #195 lets that check retry a missed start, only inside the authorized window and with the same turn budget, and the merge's new tests fail before it and pass after.
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The Task That Stopped Without Saying Anything
When my Hayate Agent's independent recovery check failed three times, the task stopped as blocked with no message, and the budget reset built for stuck tasks refused it. Since #251 that end produces one notice naming the reset, even with technical diagnostics switched off. Tasks already stuck the old way stay silent.
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A Silent Supervisor Is Not a Yes
When the supervisor model that checks an agent's "completed", "blocked" or "waiting" claim gave no usable answer, the Hayate Agent kept that claim in several cases. PR #232 keeps the task open in those cases instead, and the fix's twelve new test cases fail on the code before the merge and pass after it.
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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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