# Sebastian

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## Summary

Founder/owner of [[virtido|Virtido]], a ~11-year software outsourcing/engineering company. Interviewed by [[eugene]]. Brings the services-business, client, compliance, and sales lens to how AI reshapes engineering.

## Current Understanding

Sebastian agrees AI can write software and that teams collapse to 2–3 people, but his signature contribution is the **enterprise counterpoint**: [[harness|"bring your own harness"]] cannot survive compliance, so a company-managed standard harness is "the interesting market" ([[enterprise-ai-reality]]). His other durable claims: seniors gain / juniors lose ([[seniority-and-the-junior-squeeze]]), and **[[connections-as-moat|in-person relationships are the last non-commoditized asset]]**.

## Evidence

- Interview: team collapse, enterprise lock-down (Roche ~1,200 engineers; banks), printer anecdote, profile-picture ownership story, "Big zero" on digital outreach — [[2026-07-14-sebastian-eugene-interview]].
- Reports enterprise clients on centrally-managed VMs with zero self-install.

## Related Pages

- Entity: [[eugene]] (interviewer, counterpart), [[virtido]]
- Concepts: [[harness]], [[enterprise-ai-reality]], [[seniority-and-the-junior-squeeze]], [[product-ownership]], [[connections-as-moat]], [[decoupling-identity-from-profession]], [[code-as-throwaway]]

## Contradictions / Uncertainty

- Disagrees with **Eugene** on harness (BYO vs company-managed), on OSS motivation (marketing vs "more OSS as code gets free"), and on networking channels (online vs in-person).
- Disagrees with colleague **Daniel** on returning to waterfall planning.

## Next Questions

- How does AI transform ~1,200-engineer, multi-year enterprise programs? (He says he doesn't know.)
