Michael Ruescher

I'm Michael Ruescher. I left Blueshift on May 15, 2026 to build Bitter .

I have spent enough time building with AI agents to see the demo stop being the bottleneck. What matters after that is whether the model has a real place to work.

A model that can write code is not yet a product, a company, or an institution. It needs repos, deploys, credentials, logs, memory, permissions, and someone with taste who is responsible for the result. That is what Bitter is for.

The bitter lesson is why I care. General methods that scale with compute keep winning. If that continues, the durable work is the environment around the model: what it can see, what it can touch, and how people stay in control.

If you're working through the same problem, I'd like to compare notes.