Kubernetes, self-hosted AI — hands-on, in production
DevOps & AI Infrastructure EngineerResearch agents and RAG pipelines get the full markdown of any article as JSON — GET /api/content/{slug} — paid per request over x402 (~$0.01 USDC on Base, exact scheme). No signup, no API key; the agent pays on the request itself. Humans keep reading the free pages.
GET /api/content/ai-powered-lead-generation-marketing
→ 402 + PAYMENT-REQUIRED (exact, eip155:84532, $0.01)
→ sign, retry with PAYMENT-SIGNATURE
→ 200 + { slug, title, markdown, ... }I am Tobias Weiß, working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, extended reality, and human-computer interaction.
This is my personal research hub and technical journal — a working archive of how I build, break, and think about self-hosted, sovereign technology. Every article here is the direct result of hands-on infrastructure work: running Kubernetes clusters on my own hardware, serving open-weight language models behind Traefik, experimenting with WebXR on AR headsets, and documenting what actually holds up in production.
The site is deliberately organized around a few recurring threads:
I publish in both German and English. The site runs on a fully self-hosted stack (Next.js, Docker, Traefik) — the infrastructure articles you read here describe the very setup that serves this page.
If you want to work with me, see consulting — or sponsor the project on GitHub.
What actually becomes scarce once intelligence stops being the bottleneck? My GPU World long-read takes the competition premise seriously — a Bayesian model of a world with one GPU per person by 2040, a story set inside it, and what a frozen frontier reveals about trust, attention and accountability. Published out of judgement; you are the jury. (Deutsche Fassung)
Nietzsche's Übermensch was a challenge, not a prophecy. But what happens when the thing that surpasses man is not the next evolution of humanity — but the machine we build to do our thinking for us? My latest essay Nietzsche's Übermensch: Is AI and Robotics Becoming What He Feared? explores the tension between the Übermensch as a human ideal and the AI systems we're creating that may surpass us. (Deutsche Fassung)