Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by ijustlovemath » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 8:46 PM UTC

oooyay wrote: post #124

Disclaimer that I used to work at Slack I love that we're challenging the status quo in chat. It feels like we've settled into an eternal September of sorts. I am somewhat bearish that Slack and Teams will survive, or rise to, the agent era. That said, I'm curious whether NOSTR is really the protocol for this. For some really large corporations you're looking at a lot of clients (and their shadows like cellphones, lo…

Why does Rust feel like a bad choice to you? In my experience shipping med device software, it's great for keeping the code that teams write cohesive and correct

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

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Post by bigfishrunning » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 8:48 PM UTC

butlike wrote: post #103

mplewis wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

oh, you absolutely know this one is going to be a slopfest. Buzz is going to make GitHub look like a paragon of nines.

It's probably just Dorsey's vibe-coded side project. The scope isn't too big and it's rather unimpressive

Isn't everything Dorsey does these days his vibe-coded side project?

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

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Post by lbrito » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 8:49 PM UTC

alfons_foobar wrote: post #44

Am I the only one seeing _crazy_ levels of CPU usage when opening the project's homepage ( https://buzz.xyz )? Like "maxing-out-8-cores"-crazy?

Yeah, crazy that a landing page exhausts the resources of my 2019 CPU. Mouse movement tells me it runs at like 5FPS.

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

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Post by dwedge » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 8:50 PM UTC

It's interesting how my opinion of "Jack Dorsey launches X" is a total 180 from a decade ago. He just seems like a well-funded grifter to me.

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

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Post by bilsbie » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 8:50 PM UTC

This is basically the ide of the future if you think about it. If bots do all the coding then this is where you’ll code.

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

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Post by bigfishrunning » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 8:51 PM UTC

throwawa14223 wrote: post #64

Jack Dorsey has figured out how to make chat worse by adding LLMs.

I feel like chatGPT did that years ago...or maybe ELIZA?

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

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Post by another-dave » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 8:52 PM UTC

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…

My understanding of what they were saying Buzz is is that agents are "1st class" users in their own right, rather than being an app integration.

If you have a user called Claude, then you just apply ACL as normal & you don't care if they're human or bot, right?

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

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Post by lifty » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 8:53 PM UTC

themgt wrote: post #60

That screenshot is some Lynchian horror. "#engineering. New direction, team – we're moving the prototype to Flutter" and then the humans and agent bots engage in flirty emoji-filled chats with cutesy names "I nailed the physics, UI shell @Honeybot?" I'm trying to imagine a world in which this makes sense as a way to organize software development work, but coming up short. It's on a blockchain or something though, so…

Nostr is not blockchain. It's a p2p protocol.

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

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Post by tlongwell-block » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 8:53 PM UTC

Hi, folks

There's a brief write-up on Buzz here https://engineering.block.xyz/blog/buzz

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

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Post by tomaskafka » Tue, Jul 21, 2026, 8:53 PM UTC

swader999 wrote: post #110

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…

Private groups are the worst thing in a truly collaborative environment. Would be nice in Slack to have a Publish this whole freaking thread to a public channel button.

But who is allowed to press it? If anyone, then anyone can expose career ruining messages from someone else, even inadvertently.