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

Post by Hilliard_Ohiooo » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 12:06 PM UTC

maeln wrote: post #310

kleiba2 wrote: post #303

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Maybe it's just me, but when I was younger one reason that got me into AI research was the idea that one day we would have these seemingly intelligent entities that we could talk to and interact with just like we do with humans. Now that we have that, everybody hates it. Except me. I still like this. There might still be room for improvement, yes, but I think this is a cool attempt to making AI agents part of the tea…

I get it. I am still in love with the idea of having little bot and helper I can interact with. Realistic NPC, etc ... I think my current distrust and disappointment as many reasons that mostly boils down to imagination vs. reality. The current generation of LLM takes a lot of resources to make, so of course it was made and pushed by the worst offender of late-stage capitalism. Giving an air of mercantilism, corporat…

Post by IrfanD » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 12:09 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…

Post by fragmede » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 12:11 PM UTC

suladead wrote: post #265

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I have a premonition of future programming despair, and I wonder if it'll be like what Ian McKellen felt: A veteran of Shakespearean plays, doing all those [correction, not LoTR] The Hobbit green-screen shots interacting with no real person... __________ > McKellen said: "I felt pretty miserable … and thought perhaps, has the time come for me to stop acting altogether if I can't cope with these difficulties?" [...] >…

Soul engraving video seeing him go through that

Post by olmo23 » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 12:41 PM UTC

_verandaguy wrote: post #14

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…

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?

Post by maeln » Wed, Jul 22, 2026, 12:46 PM UTC

Hilliard_Ohiooo wrote: post #321

maeln wrote: post #310

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I get it. I am still in love with the idea of having little bot and helper I can interact with. Realistic NPC, etc ... I think my current distrust and disappointment as many reasons that mostly boils down to imagination vs. reality. The current generation of LLM takes a lot of resources to make, so of course it was made and pushed by the worst offender of late-stage capitalism. Giving an air of mercantilism, corporat…

> They are a random number generator that are just insanely good at giving you the number that you want... Well, you definitely have the absolute worst definition and least understanding of what an llm is of anyone I've ever met, that's interesting.