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Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

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Re: Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

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Post by verdverm »

jacobgold wrote: post #9

Slack exists largely because IRC was insufficient. It didn't natively support channel history, search, etc. For AI agents to flourish, Slack has to either truly open its network with a protocol or eventually be replaced. I'd like to see Slack embrace an AT protocol-based chat system, which then apps like Buzz could implement. Then users could log in with domain handles like @yourname.com, and agents could use handles…

ATProto's tbd permission system is insufficient for the granularity needed in enterprise. Many of those features needed (like groups) will have to be built in an app view and by proxy be centralized. ACLs are two generations in the past of IAM history

Chat is also not a great modality for the PDS/ATP, Roomy learned this and is building a dedicated protocol and bridge.

Re: Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

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Post by noodlescb »

Interesting idea. I think the "multiplayer mode for AI development" bit resonates somewhat. Biggest problem is that I do think most companies have a ton of key contributors that find git/code intimidating, so part of me thinks the real answer here will be stuff like Surfboard, Town, etc. that can work with git AND the work tools in a more user friendly, browser-first way.

Re: Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

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Post by noodlescb »

jacobgold wrote: post #9

Slack exists largely because IRC was insufficient. It didn't natively support channel history, search, etc. For AI agents to flourish, Slack has to either truly open its network with a protocol or eventually be replaced. I'd like to see Slack embrace an AT protocol-based chat system, which then apps like Buzz could implement. Then users could log in with domain handles like @yourname.com, and agents could use handles…

I originally was passionate about Slack simply because it was "IRC but with modern quality of life improvements". Ever since they got fucked by MSFT and sold out to Salesforce, it's basically been dead in the water and the only changes have largely made it worse.

Re: Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

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Post by dewey »

I've recently built some project that also supports Nostr (https://getbirdfeeder.com, but more for the fun of playing with Nostr) but it feels very forced to use it for something like that. It feels like it's solving an issue that no team chat ever has.

> Buzz is built around a self-hostable Nostr relay. Every message, reaction, workflow step, code event and approval is stored as a cryptographically signed event. Human employees and agents receive the same basic identity structure, including their own key pairs, channel memberships and audit trails.

Re: Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

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Post by GodelNumbering »

muglug wrote: post #4

[I work for Slack, opinions very much my own] Having agents see everything you and your colleagues see is cool. The challenge comes when you want to make certain things private to certain people. In that world you don’t want multiplayer agents leaking data, so you end up having to write and maintain complex rulesets about what specific resources agents have access to. Single-player agents, on the other hand, are much…

> so you end up having to write and maintain complex rulesets about what specific resources agents have access to.

Why wouldn't you simply use the group chat ID (+more) to key the conversations on?

Re: Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

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Post by serial_dev »

rsstack wrote: post #28

> Explain Like I'm 5 > Buzz is an open-source, self-hosted workspace that combines team chat, AI agents and Git hosting using signed Nostr events, so teams can keep control of their data. Very different expectations of 5-year-olds.

Hah, I used to tell my agents “eli5 (this task)”, then I started to worry that it will actually explain things as you would to a 5yo…

It’s just an irrational fear I have, in the end agents are not the HN comment section and they usually understand what I actually mean.

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