I'm curious how this will play out. So far having agents in a group chats with multiple people is hard. Either the agent creates a different "thread" internally for each user and everyone has a 1 on 1 convo with the agent in the same group chat, or it's just chaos.
Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
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#222That 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…
Every time I see some vibecoded AI slop project announcement where there is almost 1 emoji per line I want to reach out across the internet and punch the "author" in the face.
This shit is infesting every online discussion forum I'm in.
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#224That 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…
I would ask that someone shoot me in the face before I engaged with this slop.
Me: Shoot me in the face, @cringebot
Cringebot: :salute: on it!
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#225After selling Twitter to Elon, I trust Jack about as much as I trust Trump. And that's as far as I can throw Trump.
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#226[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…
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#227That Jack Dorsey?
Yes, the tall Peter Dinklage.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s kinda interesting seeing what, IIRC, was originally a subreddit name which spawned from an AskReddit thread, is now a common marketing phrase in the tech world. Similar to the sub itself, it’s now just shorthand for “describe using the first principles the expected audience should understand.” I imagine a lot of people in the industry also fondly remember the 2010s reddit experience.
Not sure how long the subreddit has existed but I always assumed it was inspired by the episode of The Office where Michael asks Oscar to explain what a surplus is like he's 5. The broader usage on social media and the ELI5 shorthand are definitely the result of the subreddit though. This article is definitely abusing the terminology, because I wouldn't expect even tech-knowledgeable people to know what Nostr is or d…
I remember when the sub was first created, I think there was an understanding it didn’t actually mean you were explaining to five year olds. Hard to recall exactly when it was created though, so definitely awhile ago.
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#229Now when I see new software projects I just think of how much of them are made with agents and the unreliability/easy abandonment that comes with it. Ten years ago this product would have been of a known quality. Not saying anything about buzz specifically.
I find this thought process somewhat faulty given that the vast majority of software ends up in that spot regardless. Hard to take this as that big a deal when Google literally launched a product along similar social themes named "Google Buzz" which lasted all of like 16 months in 2010, well before agents and llms. Either the project will find a fit, or it won't - and code quality doesn't have all that much to do wit…
And I find this thought process somewhat faulty.
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