Ingo Hinterding

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Welcome, and enjoy your stay.

I’m Ingo Hinterding, a Creative Technologist and enthusiastic maker. Over the years, I’ve co-founded a handful of startups, and I’m now leading the prototyping team at CityLAB, Berlin’s public innovation lab. In my work, I focus on using technology and design to explore new possibilities in the public sector, and I’m often invited to speak on software prototyping and AI. I'm very honored to be named a Rising Star on the 2025 Government AI 100 list.

Here, I share my personal perspectives on tech, AI and large language models, software and hardware prototyping, design, and the experiments I’m tinkering with. If you have any questions, want to exchange ideas, or just feel like saying hello, I’d be happy to connect.

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Latest notes

April 04, 2025

Product Owner: “We can’t use a checkbox to let users uncheck their data privacy!”
UI Intern: “I know EXACTLY what you mean!”

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March 27, 2025

Since I left TwiX (and not feeling at home on Mastodon or Bluesky yet), I was thinking about a format to post short ideas and comments on my website. Funny enough, Simon Willison, whose blog I strongly recommend and read daily, had the same idea apparently and introduced “notes” to his website. And just like him, I completely vibe-coded this in VS Code with Augment in half an hour. Crazy tines we live in!

Latest posts

✨ AI & the Future of Public Administration

Generated entirely by a large language model using the Deep Research method, this paper examines how AI is reshaping public administration through 2026. It offers a comprehensive analysis of digital transformation at the micro, meso, and macro levels, explores evolving regulatory frameworks, and presents global case studies—from Berlin’s digital initiatives to international trends.
✨ Local LLMs with Ollama: A Hands-On Guide

A practical walkthrough of local LLM deployment using Ollama, this guide explains everything from model selection and prompt tuning to customizing AI personalities with modelfiles.
🇩🇪🔍 Germany's Next Top Model Updated 14.03.25

Eine Vergleichstabelle aktueller Open Source Large Language Modelle und ihrer Unterstützung deutscher Sprache.
🇩🇪📝 LLMs im Land der Dichter und Denker

KI zwischen Goethe und GPU: Wie gut meistern Open-Source-Modelle die deutsche Grammatik?
🍎 Using a Mac Mini as a server

This article describes how I use a Mac Mini as a server and development machine for creative prototyping—and how it helps me save costs.
🚀 Website Relaunch

Why I believe a homepage is even more relevant in 2025

Recent projects

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🖼️ AI on Canvas

A digital artwork in an antique wooden frame, blending classic oil painting charm with generative AI. Each day, it regenerates, offering a new masterpiece that merges tradition with technology, capturing nature’s dynamic beauty and the spirit of adventure.
🌻 Flower Power

A 3d printed flower which shows the current charge of the house's solar battery in a playful way.
🖼️ Framed Utopia online & offline versions

A tiny window into a better world – one whimsical utopia at a time.
📖 Das Buch

An experimental “book” that automatically scans the day’s headlines, selects a related title, and displays its summary on an e-paper cover—inviting us to explore current events through the lens of literature.

© 2025 • Ingo Hinterding

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