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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 jorisw »

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…

It's not really that Emoji filled. The screenshot is supposed to've been taken when a click on a heart reaction invoked a little animation.

I don't see anything about 'nailing' the physics either. It's just a design instruction.

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

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Post by jorisw »

NamlchakKhandro wrote: post #242
teaearlgraycold wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really need these LLMs to start being more like the gate keeping assholes of StackOverflow. Just a little dash of that energy would go a long way.

ponytail pi extension. get it.

This is great

https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail

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

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Post by vaylian »

kinakomochidayo wrote: post #276

Jack still trying to make Nostr relevant in 2026

I also wonder how Nostr is useful here. The central idea of Nostr is that it's a lot harder to deplatform people, because a user can publish to several independent relays. Buzz is self-hostable, which removes the risk of deplatforming.

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

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Post by veltas »

kyle-rb wrote: post #118
joenot443 wrote: post #81

Earlier 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…

The original joke for anyone who doesn't know or remember, Michael, the manager, asks his accountant to explain what a surplus is like he would to an 8 year old. Michael doesn't understand this and asks for how he would explain it to a 5 year old, which Oscar does a very good job with explaining and Michael finally understands.

Later the security guard is called upstairs to break a tie on votes for what to spend the surplus on, and Michael starts reciting Oscar's 5 year old explanation, and the guard cuts him off saying he knows what a surplus is.

I have to imagine this is sort of a joke about the audience too as inevitably the writers were considering that audience members might not know what a surplus is, and this kind of joke is an opportunity to explain it.

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

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Post by rsingel »

I can only hope that bigger companies go all in on agents integrated into slack-like software. More fake work, slower orgs, and easier targets for companies that prioritize building stuff over fetishizing overengineered IRC with emojis pretending to be productivity software.

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

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Post by littlecranky67 »

Avshalom wrote: post #239
lifty wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Nostr isn't really p2p it's just that if you stick to text it's cheap to host a server

You are right, and "decentralized" would be the proper word. Thats why it is often associated with Bitcoin (and yes, because there are extensions that allow you to "zap" - i.e. attach bitcoin via lightning network to messages. These are optional extensions however, and Nostr serves its own right outside of crypto. In the times of internet censorship and social media ID verification, Nostr is a welcome technology.

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

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Post by cdnsteve »

Companies are looking for more traceability in regulated environments. We have audit and compliance to deal with where the whole sdlc is under a microscope.

Does buzz help move us out of Jira hell, get off slack, teams or google chat? Does it get us off github enterprise?

I don't understand the problem this solves and how it could be reasonably used in a corporate environment.

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

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Post by dgellow »

serial_dev wrote: post #48
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.

Ouch
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