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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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It doesn't. But as long as it's a vibe-coded slop product shat out by one of the tech glitterati using the latest marketing wanketeering and sucking up tokens to power the in-built AI nonsense, it'll be eaten up. The bubble can't pop soon enough.

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"There is a bubble" and "LLMs aren't useful" are two separate claims. You're contradicting the latter. The former can still be true even if the latter is false.

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

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As much as I detest Zuck, he was right about Twitter guys.

How? I would argue Jack is a much better 0 to 1 guy than Zuck and Zuck is a better 1 to N guy Jack: Twitter, Square (Block), Bluesky/ATProto, bitchat (interesting), buzz (we will see). He just always fumbles the 1 to N (See Vine as an example) Other Twitter Guy: Medium Zuck: PHP dev, gets a hit, reads innovators dilemma... buys instagram. Everything else sucks.

You're right, but can we stick with Blue Ocean and Red Ocean as metaphors? 0 to 1 makes sense, but 1 to N loses it, and the whole framing reeks of pseudomathematics and math envy (which there is way too much of in the tech industry), when we have a perfectly good metaphor from competition in natural selection. Also the tech industry has way too much renaming-things-with-less-intuitive-terminology-to-seem-original.

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

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> 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.

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.

>it’s now just shorthand for “describe using the first principles the expected audience should understand.”

I think at that it still fails pretty bad. I suppose the expected audience is quite a bit broader than people who would know or actually care what nostr events are. Maybe my expectation is off though.

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

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"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." - Albert Einstein (allegedly :)) I always thought that the quote was with "5 year old" and that it was the reason for ELI5 :)

"An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid," Lord Rutherford of Nelson. There should be some name for the phenonenom of assigning anything pithy to Einstein.

I just find it interesting that Lord Rutherford thought the purpose of science was chatting up barmaids.

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

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I remember someone saying it in high school back in the late 90s or early 00s.

I remember saying this when I was 5 years old

When the doctor slapped my ass directly after I was born I reportedly turned to him and in a serious tone inquired "why did you do that, explain it to me like I was 5" which so freaked the poor man out that he dropped me on my head, and thus I myself have no recollection of the event.

He was later sent to an asylum for the criminally insane although he used to break out and try to hunt me down to kill me for being "evil".

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

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This guy wants people to use bitcoin for chat so badly and it is never going to happen, but it is kind of sweet that Jack Dorsey, through Nostr, was able to accomplish what Musk wants so badly: A social media platform only used by people that like him

Yep. Nostr is just a social network for Bitcoin maxis

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

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Cool. Windows was made in 7.5 years. Since you can do one month per 2 days it should take you less than 6 months to make something equivalent to Windows and make as much money. How long have you been doing it??

I've built two multi-million dollar businesses this year. I have no interest in building Windows. Right now I'm building some very cool business functions similar to companies with way more funding yet lackluster product offerings. I have no doubt someone out there somewhere will follow up on exactly what you've suggested.

> I've built two multi-million dollar businesses this year.

Elaborate? Legitimately curious

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