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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 2001zhaozhao »

I think a tool with this kind of UX is the future of engineering orgs. It reminds me a lot of JetBrains Space (which I already thought was a good idea back then), but with agents.

I don't see a lot of information about the Git hosting aspect of the product on the website, though. Somewhat doubtful that they will be able to make a Git forge with similar polish to GitLab

It subjectively seems to me that integrating with an existing forge (e.g. Forgejo) on the API layer and rebuilding the auth and frontend is a better bet. You get stable features like PRs, permissions and CI actions out of the box and they stay synced with known formats in the community and so make your tool easy to adopt. Though making a forge from scratch does have advantages especially for internal company use cases.

Another problem I see with Buzz is that the tool doesn't seem to be taking advantage of its vertical integration inside its UX enough. There is a lot more you can do with full control over Git hosting, project context, and org-wide chat in a single tool than what this tool attempts to do right now.

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

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Post by mmh0000 »

jlarocco wrote: post #5

It's crazy how one lucky break lets somebody spend the rest of their life throwing s*t at the wall to see what sticks to earn them more money.

Reposted from HN user notacoward[1]:

Entrepreneurship is like one of those carnival games where you throw darts or something.

Middle class kids can afford one throw. Most miss. A few hit the target and get a small prize. A very few hit the center bullseye and get a bigger prize. Rags to riches! The American Dream lives on.

Rich kids can afford many throws. If they want to, they can try over and over and over again until they hit something and feel good about themselves. Some keep going until they hit the center bullseye, then they give speeches or write blog posts about "meritocracy" and the salutary effects of hard work.

Poor kids aren't visiting the carnival. They're the ones working it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15659076

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

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Post by _verandaguy »

Jare wrote: post #25
_verandaguy wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is it Slack's responsibility to help agents flourish? I ask about Slack here because it's pertinent, but I've both seen and experienced firsthand this inversion across the industry where we must adapt our workflows for AI. Isn't a tool supposed to work for you, not the other around?

> Why is it Slack's responsibility to help agents flourish? Technically, because if the world moves to AI-driven tools and Slack is not cooperating, it will no longer serve the world and will be left behind. > Isn't a tool supposed to work for you If you want AI integration in your chat and Slack is not helping make it happen, then Slack is not working for you. On the other hand, constantly chasing the latest fad can…

I think this is missing my implied point. Is this desire for AI integration actually coming from most people? Or is it a handful of decision makers who aren't thinking about the technology critically for one reason or another (either due to lack of information/understanding, or a financial stake)?

AI is still seen very negatively in opinion polls across multiple countries, and anecdotally, tools which were often obnoxious to use before AI are now much more so, at least to my flesh-and-blood self. It really seems like we're making things worse for ourselves just to help support this would-be self-fulfilling prophecy.

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

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Post by hmokiguess »

I was trying to build something like that myself, but I had based it off IRC and was going to go protocol first not PaaS type of thing.

I think this is an unclaimed space where the future of work is bound to find itself in, though I'm not yet sure how/who is gonna win.

My solo project was abandoned unfortunately, that said I saw some cool protocol initiatives similar to it recently like this one: https://github.com/h5i-dev/h5i

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

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Post by [deleted] »

charcircuit wrote: post #36
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…

Slack already has an API for building bots. It doesn't need to be open.

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