Ingo Hinterding Ingo Hinterding
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I'm a Creative Technologist and enthusiastic maker, currently leading the prototyping team at CityLAB, Berlin's public innovation lab, where I focus on using technology and design to explore new possibilities in the public sector. I enjoy speaking on software prototyping and artificial intelligence and 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.

  • March 16, 2026

    Selected content now translated by LLM

    Another vibe coding session later (this time with tokens & a glass of red wine 🍷) I’ve added another feature: Some articles will now be translated into either english or german, depending on the source language. It’s not an automatic process, though. I’ve created a translation.md file which I ask Opus 4.6 to execute. The model then asks me for the article it should translate and adds a disclaimer at the beginning of the text. I like this approach as it requires me to make a concious decision if an article should be translated and I can review and edit it easily.

  • March 15, 2026

    Website Update

    Opus 4.6 and I have updated the website. We removed the old themes and created a new one, added a burger menu for small devices, added multilanguage toggles, simplified the index site, revamped the menu, cleaned up the codebase and introduced a better AIBadge. All within less than an hour, chilling on the couch, tokens for the model, a craft beer 🍺 for me. This is vibe coding at it’s best.

  • February 13, 2026

    Homöopathische Persönlichkeit – warum wir über unseren Umgang mit KI reden müssen
    Künstliche Intelligenz verändert grundlegend, wie wir Inhalte erstellen. Das bringt enorme Vorteile, wirft aber auch Fragen nach Authentizität und Transparenz auf. Zeit für einen ehrlichen Umgang mit der Technologie.
  • February 13, 2026

    Homeopathic Personality – Why We Need to Talk About How We Use AI
    Artificial intelligence is fundamentally changing how we create content. That brings enormous benefits, but it also raises questions about authenticity and transparency. Time for an honest conversation about the technology.
  • December 07, 2025

    BärGPT

    I’ve added two articles (with one in both english and german language) I wrote alongside the release of BärGPT, the new AI assistent for Berlin’s public administration. They originally appeared on the CityLAB Blog, but since leading this amazing project took the better half of the year, I figured I might as well share them here, too.

  • December 01, 2025

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    Warum BärGPT eine Eigenentwicklung ist – und warum das richtig war
    Mit BärGPT startet ein neuer KI-Assistent für die Berliner Landesverwaltung. Während uns von Beschäftigten sehr positives Feedback erreicht, gibt es in der öffentlichen Diskussion auch kritische Stimmen: Warum eine Eigenentwicklung, wenn es doch bereits Lösungen anderer Bundesländer gibt? Eine Einordnung von Ingo Hinterding, Entwicklungsleiter im CityLAB Berlin.
  • December 01, 2025

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    Why BärGPT Is a Custom Development – And Why That Was the Right Call
    BärGPT launches as a new AI assistant for Berlin's state administration. While we receive very positive feedback from employees, there are also critical voices in public discourse: Why a custom development when solutions from other federal states already exist? A perspective by Ingo Hinterding, Head of Development at CityLAB Berlin.
  • November 25, 2025

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    BärGPT KI-Assistent für die Berliner Verwaltung
    Mit BärGPT startete am 25. November 2025 ein neuer KI-Assistent für die Berliner Landesverwaltung – entwickelt vom CityLAB Berlin in enger Zusammenarbeit mit der Senatskanzlei. Das Ziel: Verwaltungsmitarbeitende bei ihrer täglichen Arbeit mit smarten KI-Funktionen unterstützen und Routineaufgaben effizienter gestalten.
  • November 25, 2025

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    BärGPT AI Assistant for the Berlin Administration
    With BärGPT, a new AI assistant for the Berlin state administration launched on 25 November 2025, developed by CityLAB Berlin in close cooperation with the Senate Chancellery. The goal: to support administrative staff in their daily work with smart AI features and to make routine tasks more efficient.
  • August 08, 2025

    new blog post: Can AI play Text Adventures?

    A new blog post is out: Can AI play a Text Adventure? Now with the latest models from OpenAI: the open weight gpt-oss and the brand new gpt-5, which was just relased yesterday.

  • August 06, 2025

    OpenAI's Open Source Model tested

    Yesterday OpenAI finally dropped its new open source model called gpt-oss. As always, Simon Willison provides a great deep dive on his website. I have also included the LLM on my test page for german speaking models 🇩🇪 Germany’s Next Top Model.

  • July 20, 2025

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    Can AI play a Text Adventure?
    I love text adventures (not actually true). And I love AI (actually true). So I thought, why not combine the two? This is an ongoing experiment on how to use AI to solve Zork, an classic text adventure game.
  • July 20, 2025

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    Kann KI ein Textadventure spielen?
    Ich liebe Textadventures (stimmt gar nicht). Und ich liebe KI (stimmt). Also dachte ich mir: Warum nicht beides kombinieren? Ein laufendes Experiment, in dem KI versucht, Zork zu lösen – ein Klassiker unter den Textadventures.
  • July 20, 2025

    Quoting Scott Werner

    Quoting Scott Werner on vibe coding: Sometimes I wonder if I’m just LARPing as a programmer now. Like those people who play elaborate games of house. “Let’s pretend this document is architecture! Let’s pretend this process is official! Let’s pretend we know what we’re doing!”

  • May 27, 2025

    Quoting Johnny Haeusler

    Quoting Johnny Haeusler at re:publica 2025: “Jede Generation hat also ihre Superkraft. GenX kann Systeme hacken, GenY kann Communities bauen und GenZ kann Bewegungen und Ideen viral gehen lassen. Wir können also eine ganze Menge bewegen [..]”.

  • April 04, 2025

    UI Intern

    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

    Adding Notes to the Mix

    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!

  • March 15, 2025

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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.
  • February 07, 2025

    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.
  • February 02, 2025

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    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.
  • January 12, 2025

    Germany's Next Top Model
    Eine Vergleichstabelle aktueller Open Source Large Language Modelle und ihrer UnterstĂĽtzung deutscher Sprache.
  • January 11, 2025

    LLMs im Land der Dichter und Denker
    KI zwischen Goethe und GPU: Wie gut meistern Open-Source-Modelle die deutsche Grammatik?
  • January 02, 2025

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    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.
  • January 01, 2025

    Website Relaunch 🚀
    Why I believe a homepage is even more relevant in 2025
  • January 01, 2025

    Website Relaunch 🚀
    Warum ich finde, dass eine eigene Homepage 2025 relevanter ist denn je
  • December 09, 2024

    Honored to be named a Rising Star on the Government AI 100 list
    Apolitical released list of influencial public servants leading on AI adoption, capacity building and regulation within government.
  • December 09, 2024

    Rising Star auf der Government AI 100 Liste
    Apolitical hat eine Liste der einflussreichsten Personen im öffentlichen Dienst veröffentlicht, die KI-Einführung, Kompetenzaufbau und Regulierung in der Verwaltung vorantreiben.
  • December 01, 2024

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    🌻 Flower Power
    A 3d printed flower which shows the current charge of the house's solar battery in a playful way.
  • December 01, 2024

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    🖼️ Framed Utopia online & offline versions
    A tiny window into a better world – one whimsical utopia at a time.
  • December 01, 2024

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    đź“– 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.
  • November 18, 2024

    Finetuning Parla
    How we're bringing the AI assistant up to date – a workshop report from the Prototyping Team of the CityLAB Berlin
  • January 01, 2024

    AI Glossary
    A brief glossary of AI vocabolary
  • January 01, 2024

    KI Glossar
    Deutschsprachiges Glossar der wichtigsten Begriffe
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