Own Your Harness
The model provides the reasoning, but the harness decides what the agent can read, run, remember and send beyond your machine.
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Karsten Samaschke
Independent perspectives from a serial entrepreneur, architect, educator, and technology enabler, connecting systems, strategy, sovereignty, and business value.
AI-Native Cloud-Native Open-Source Privacy Sovereignty Business
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Trustworthy or Bustworthy
AI-driven supply-chain attacks undermine any trustworthiness. Here is how to handle that.
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Know what leaves your repo
AI coding agents are useful, but once they can read a repo, run commands, see stack traces, and send context to a model, they become part of the data path.
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PI-Agent as the ONE Harness
One self-hosted, customizable agent harness now connects my local development, infrastructure work, research, and everyday communication channels.
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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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Built from practice, not sidelines.
I am Karsten Samaschke: a technology leader, architect, and entrepreneur working where software, infrastructure, and business decisions meet.
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Videos make the core idea clear. Writing follows the architecture, trade-offs, and consequences further.