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

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Post by pksunkara »

theptip wrote: post #235

This could fill a useful niche. However I would assume Anthropic and OpenAI are going to build their own and steamroll in 6-12 months. I did a dive recently on git forges for agent swarms. Radicle lacks an identity layer, the federated/COB model seems good. Tangled has no private repo story, though the social layer is solid; they also have an (IMO) awkward modeling of Issues as tweets at her than being owned by the r…

I am building a new code forge at https://juju.bi

It's not agent-first, but I can't think of any features that are needed for agents other than scalability.

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

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Post by teach »

bigfishrunning wrote: post #141
teach wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slack's approach is NOT good enough, because the version of the Agent that lives in Slack cannot see the context of the Agent that lives inside Cursor on my developer laptop. They might be clones with identical brains, but they can't talk to each other or compare notes.

So why can't the cursor instance on your laptop have a slack bot? I've had a slack bot on my build machine written in chicken-scheme of all things for years, I feel like the great people (or clankers?) at cursor ought to be able to figure this one out

It could! An MCP would actually be great but Slack would prefer to sell us their own AI integration product so (1) they make it difficult and more importantly (2) it's against their terms of service

We pay them a LOT of money every year and they would absolutely notice the indexing at the level we'd need to do to make this work ourselves, so the answer is "because Slack is preventing us".

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

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Post by radiorental »

SoftTalker wrote: post #184
tomaskafka wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Who would put a career ruining message on slack or any other company platform/service?

It can be more subtle than that. For example...

I'm working on a challenging project where there's a delta between what the market and PM's are asking for, and what dev wants to commit to. I'm talking to both parties to try and build consensus.

In such situations I dont want either side to see the negotiations, reasoning and reconciliations. Its not that there are career limiting statements in these threads, it's just navigating politics and I dont want that content in the public square

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

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Post by [deleted] »

darth_avocado wrote: post #76
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.

The fact that he does that instead of focusing on what he is already in charge of is egregious. If I was a Block shareholder looking at this, I’d be upset. It’s been years of him going on side quests like Tidal, blockchain, weekly etc. while ignoring the core needs of his customers and losing out on various fronts. Toast is a $20B company while Block is some $50B company after the acquisition of cash app (which by th…

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

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Post by tdeck »

darth_avocado wrote: post #240
jjfoooo4 wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(I work for Block, not on this) Cash App was not an acquisition, it originated as a hackweek within (what was then called) Square. Possibly you’re thinking of the Afterpay acquisition?

Ahh sorry, you’re right, I meant Afterpay which was a $29B acquisition. I also meant Weebly not weekly (autocorrect).

Weebly was interesting because before that Square had their own online store (it went through a bunch of names over time) and they existed concurrently for a while, although I'm not sure if they still do. The codebase was a nightmare and the whole team had abandoned it and moved on to other things, which meant it wasn't getting fixes or updates for a while.

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

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Post by rchaud »

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.

"Explain like I'm pitching to TechCrunch Disrupt".

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

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Post by Melatonic »

cryptoz wrote: post #49
ecliptik wrote: post #18

Google Buzz [1] along with Wave you both were too soon for this world. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz

Still can't make a Gmail label named 'Buzz'.

Know of any other labels that are blocked or taken ?

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

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Post by jaggederest »

another-dave wrote: post #299
jaggederest wrote: post #147

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The issue is when users interact with claude, what can they see? If the AI can see super-secret-payroll-details.md - is it allowed to discuss that with any user? is there some sort of internal ACL within claude that asks pretty please don't tell everyone they're underpaid? That's why multiuser agents can be an issue. The other way to do this, is to have claude installed for everyone, and any user's chat with claude u…

I would've thought you could solve that with multiple agents. So rather than having "Claude" installed as a god-mode user in all channels, you have 10 instances of a bot running, each with their own context and ACLs. For example, you could set it so that the agent's ACLs become the intersect of the least privileged user in all the channels it lives in - you try to add a bot to the "Executive Bonus discussion" and get…

I am sorry to be the bearer of bad news: That is just massive ACLs and permissions issues with extra steps.

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

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Post by tqi »

WorldPeas wrote: post #164
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…

I think a happy medium like signal would be much better, slack is an immovable part of much of the (white-collar) business relationship world now but it'd be nice if there were assurances of secrecy and security in communication as 24/7 cyberattacks rather than a company whose security is based solely on promises rather than zero-knowledge systems. Signal has had far and away the best cross-platform messaging experie…

But why would a business want to have it's internal communications be on a platform like signal? none of the privacy features feel relevant to work related communications, if anything I think a company needs the ability to see all communications on platforms it uses for audit ability, collaboration, etc
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