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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 1h

And my honest opinion – Claude is useful in the same way as an IDE and code completion. It makes a good developer faster, but it doesn’t make a senior out of a junior, and it only increases the amount of damage a poor developer can do to a project.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 1h

For reference I use Claude when I code, and if you burn enough tokens it’s absolutely useful – but we’re not yet in the bait-and/switch part of the enshittification cycle. VC cash is only going to pay for my unit tests for so long.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 1h

There are similarities in the true believer and those claiming ”a new paradigm” (it never is), but the difference is that this one is being pushed with the help of weaponized grift.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 7h

Lack of helmets, lack of shields, fantasy armor, madly running at the enemy because why not, double handing axe and sword, no bling, no color, weird face paint. Did I miss anything? 😭

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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The most disappointing video you’ll see today.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’ve done my share of traveling for work, but last week’s cabf F2F being hosted at the Austrian parliament was probably peak fancy.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One more week until OpenSSL in Prague, and I’m doing my first panel discussion at a major conference. What will I wear? 😭

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s for the same reason I’d rather hear an amateur badly playing a piece they love live than listen to slop. Culture is about communication, a sharing of ideas, feelings and sensations between people, not just filling a void with artifice.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Insomnia has its perks. This is the most brilliant thing I’ve read all night.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hate the term, because it’s a marketing invention. It’s not ”hallucinating”, because that implies sentience, which is their way of twisting that the statistical model is not complete enough to find a correct response into something bad-but actually-good.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

People really, really need to learn to turn off calendar popups while holding external presentations.

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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 19/09/2026

The hero we need

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Endless Screaming @infinitescream.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH

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Niko Stratis @nikostratis.com · 08/09/2026

why does everybody that gets really into ChatGPT or Claude or whatever immediately start talking like that one friend that went to Burning Man one time

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

8. Reuse a popular template: enshittification. 9. Go for broke, with the aim of making companies reliant on subscribed services while fully controlling the information sphere. 10. ? 11. Profit

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

6. Tech bros pivot – instead of fiefdoms, why not just take over society? 7. Enter another round of money, influence and grift, this time pumping money into AI, with GPU manufacturers backing now that they can unload their stock into another scheme.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

5. Crypto currencies (and fucking NFTs) remain in the domain of separating the gullible from their cash. The ones making mint are the GPU manufacturers. 6. Air is going out of crypto currencies, GPU manufacturers reel in the face of having tons of unmovable stock.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

3. Crypto currencies are realized. Tech bros leverage the powers of money, influence and grift in promoting them with the ambition of creating independent fiefdoms outside of society. 4. Fiefdoms fail because it's stupid.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

How we ended up where we are today: 0: A bunch of proto-tech-bros read Cryptonomicon. 1: A bunch of proto-tech-bros make millions based on being in the right place at the right time, convince themselves themselves of their inherent superiority. 2. Tech-bros decide that society doesn't deserve them.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

ISO Audit: You're environmentally responsible, right? Me using AI prompts to generate PKI memes:

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Ah yes, the good 'ol days. When too much/too little rain in a year would wipe out entire regions. Good times.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Just read your book on the Allison Mustang – it was a good read!

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The hill I will kill on: Leave me be while I listen to the soothing sounds of Bulgarian Orthodox monks.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The cabf mailing lists are just the gift that keeps on giving.

Some idiot being pissy about not getting an EV cert.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Shower thought: every galactic map we have is incorrect, being more so the further from Earth you go.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I keep repeating this: it’s a statistical model telling you what you want to hear. Whether that information is in any way quantifiably correct or not is irrelevant.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Nah, det var ett par år innan, i Östersund.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Det var ju iofs trevligt med en statligt betald äventyrssemester till Ljusdal, men över lag håller jag nog med dig.

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Nome @nome.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Question for followers who are both A) Jewish and B) Nerds What extra barriers could you imagine for an alien in Star Trek converting to Judaism?

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Funny how much I miss phone catalogs. I used to be able to simply look up an unbiased listing of all plumbers in my area. Now the only search method is SEOd beyond usability, and the only way to find someone is word-of-mouth.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Remember that time Matt Damon did a crypto currency commercial?

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

There are a couple of openings at my employer for a Project Manager and an Operations Analyst, working with PKI. Fairly sane company, meaningful industry. Want me to post the links?

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

It's 2026 and I'm still seeing new ways people misuse SCEP. Or use SCEP, period.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Honestly preferred winters when I used to bike to work. Switched to studded tired and had the bike lanes for myself.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Det är ett massivt bait-and-switch, i princip samma enshittification-cykel vi är vana vid. Kostnaderna för kunden kommer att öka astronomiskt, men deras mål är att först se till att bolag blir av med personal och domänkunskap, så tvingas slanga upp pengarna för credits.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

I went into parenting thinking about my own childhood and swore to be the best parent ever. Wakeup call when it turns out that my kids are actually not little clones of myself, and have their own sets challenges and experiences entirely separate from my own. It was a good lesson in humility.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

En väldigt bra liknelse jag såg var en alternativ utveckling i 1914 som fick 1VK att utspela sig i annan terräng – plötsligt är skyttegravskrigets självklarhet som man antog till 2VK långt ifrån säker. Det finns många orsaker till att en konflikt utspelar sig som den gör.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Popsci Youtube short: Have you ever wondered about this remote corner of Russia? Me: Yes. Yes, many times.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The fact that Google Trust Services and Chrome apparently don't have a common post quantum TLS strategy is nothing short of hysterical.

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Mike Agrenius Kushner @1bitofentropy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

keysha-256 is making me giggle uncontrollably.

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