Three days at the CGI AI Hackathon during Silicon Saxony Days 2026: building an AI prototype with AWS, Terraform, Dify.ai, Amazon Bedrock, Titan embeddings, and RAG.

Efficiency improvements through faster compression, reduced complexity, and aggressive media optimization to significantly lower deployment size.

CI/CD cleanup with GitHub organization restructuring, runner migration, monitoring rewrites, and pipeline hardening.

Pipeline cleanup, workflow hardening, and a pragmatic DevSecOps setup focused on minimal overhead and effective secret scanning.

Recent progress on Steam submission, IP cleanup, technical upgrades, and content remakes as the project moves steadily toward full release.

A self-contained monitoring stack built with Grafana and Prometheus to track infrastructure, network, and CI systems supporting the WTF-Model deployment workflow.

Insights from achieving GitLab CI/CD Associate and iSAQB Foundation certifications—covering pipelines, software architecture views, and stakeholder-driven design.

Setting up a self-hosted GitHub runner with an Intel NUC for Steam build smoke tests on Windows Server 2025.

Implementing JSON schema and UI testing pipelines with Zod and Playwright to prevent production-breaking changes and enforcing branch protection.

Ongoing compliance efforts across 2D/3D assets and libraries are progressing well. AI remakes, licensing adjustments, DevOps improvements, and new development features have all been implemented to ensure legal clarity, technical consistency, and better usability.