Dominik Dietrich

I’ve sold every platform shift for 25 years. This one I’m building.

Portrait of Dominik DietrichHi, my name is Dominik Dietrich. Since 2002 I have been bringing new platforms into companies: Linux and open source at Red Hat, later OpenStack, OpenShift and containers, then continuous delivery at CloudBees. Today I work as a Partner Manager at HashiCorp, an IBM Company, for the DACH region.

For a bit more than a year now I have been building on my own time. Not because I’m a developer. I have never written code for a living. I wanted to understand what happens when you stop demoing AI and start operating it.

That turned into a small agentic system in my own setup. It cuts work into small tasks, has them built by a local model and a frontier model, checks the result and merges it. Even at night, while I sleep. I decide direction and boundaries; the machine writes the code.

This is where I write down what I learn along the way. Some of it works surprisingly well, some of it doesn’t work at all. Both belong here.

Open Source

Open source has been part of my working life for more than twenty years, mostly from the side that brings it into enterprises. Now I am adding the other side: small building blocks from my setup that are useful on their own, released under a permissive license starting in autumn 2026. I don’t offer consulting here.

Why a thylacine

The thylacine, also called the Tasmanian tiger, has been considered extinct since 1936. It was well adapted, and it still didn’t make it. It reminds me that not every future survives, not even the obvious one. That is exactly what interests me about platform shifts: which paths carry, and which don’t.

About this site

Plain HTML, no tracking, no cookies. It was built by my own agentic setup, from texts I write myself.

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