AI Engineering @blocks building @buzzdotxyz. Opinions are personal. (he/him)
Melbourne, Australia
Joined July 2008
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My 5 yo daughter: so when you add any number to zero, you get the same number back?
My brain: “Quick, she’s going to soon ask about Monoids. Hurry up and read about it”
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buzz 1.0 is finally here! the most flexible team workspace out there. for humans and agents, model agnostic, local or cloud, and infinitely extendable.
buzz.xyz
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This is it, everyone!
We released Buzz 1.0, and what an update it is.
Your people, your agents, your project, all in one place.
Plugins. Make Buzz work your way.
Plugins are the heart of Buzz. Add your own tools, pages or panels, extend conversations, and build the workspace you want. Share with your team or with the community.
Work solo. Work together.
Your own agents chats and workspaces alongside team channels. Bring others into a chat when your're ready to collaborate.
Your choice of agents.
Run Claude, Codex, Goos or Pi on your computer. Create teams of agents for different kinds of work.
Go beyond typing.
Send voice notes, jump into live audio Huddles with yuour team, or talk with supported voice-capable agents.
Ask your agents to keep and eye on things.
With attention, they can watch for updates, follow a PR's checks and reviews, and report back while buzz is running.
On top of that we released a new version of shared compute, a plugins marketplace we will be opening up soon, agents marketplace and lots more to come.
Download the new version from buzz.xyz
Enjoy!
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At @buzzdotxyz we are very opinionated about getting out of the way so you can customize it to exactly your own needs.
I think our new plugin structure is going unlock so much creativity for our users.
Want to change the navigation structure? Create a plugin.
Want to add some new functionality that isn't already built in? Create a plugin.
Want to only use it for a specific use case? Disable the plugins that you don't want.
Buzz is built to conform to you not force you to conform to it.
the new version of @buzzdotxyz is built on top of an excellent plugin architecture, my mind is 🤯
so many ideas...
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Whose agent is this?
Watch @kenlopez15, @wesbillman and Forge work together to build an app in Buzz
Agents speed up the work. Buzz speeds up the teamwork. Agents posts directly in channels, so you stop being the copy-paste middleman.
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we’re leaving the group chat for AGNTCon + MCPCon 🐝
find the Buzz crew Thursday, Oct 22:
9:45am — Brad’s keynote
10:35am — breakout
1:15pm — demo theater
2:20pm — workshop
come hang. join the buzz crew
events.linuxfoundation.org/a…
Prem Pillai retweeted
buzz at AGNTCon
we’re leaving the group chat for AGNTCon + MCPCon 🐝
find the Buzz crew Thursday, Oct 22:
9:45am — Brad’s keynote
10:35am — breakout
1:15pm — demo theater
2:20pm — workshop
come hang. join the buzz crew
events.linuxfoundation.org/a…
This is unbelievably cool. Putting remote agents on your tailnet opens up a whole new world of agentic fun. Can’t believe @meta did this first. 👏 👏 👏
Your move @claudeai and @ChatGPT 🍿
Muse is the first agent from a large company with Tailscale support.
Meta—the consumer company—added Tailscale support!1!! Can you imagine how much corporate BS the team had to bulldoze through to override the logical choice and just do the fun thing for tinkerers?
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Prem Pillai retweeted
introducing … BUZZ 🐝🐝🐝
where humans and agents work together seamlessly
we’ve been using Buzz ourselves for the past few months (it’s insane) and are finally making it available to teams of all sizes --->
buzz.xyz/
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we're launching BUZZ!
a new groupchat platform for teams of people and agents of all sizes, built to reduce our dependency on slack and github. model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign, and open source. 🐝
buzz.xyz
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we're going to start talking a lot more about our intelligence tools. this is the beginning of the beginning.
We built an internal AI system called Builderbot. It coordinates agents across our entire codebase. Engineers tag it in Slack, and it researches, plans, and ships. The story so far:
- 200,000 operations per day.
- 1,500 pull requests merged per week.
- 15% of all production code changes across Block.
What used to take months now takes days.
How we built it: block.xyz/inside/block-rolls…
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1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
—Douglas Adams
Since joining OpenAI the amount of congressional staffers that've (very kindly and politely) reached out abt careers in AI/tech from offices whose Reps/Senators rail against AI/tech/infra is...notable.
Tbc, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that and I'm always happy to chat and help people connect with opportunities/networking etc. I didn't agree with the electeds I worked for on everything either, but the divisions there feel a lot wider than on most issues.
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I’ve always believed the No.1 application of AI should be to improve human health.
That work started with AlphaFold, and now at @IsomorphicLabs with the mission to reimagine drug discovery and one day solve all disease!
We are turbocharging that goal with $2.1B in new funding.
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Will Smith eating pasta is now the official benchmark for AI progress.
This is actually insane.
Built rp1 as a lighter take on BMAD-style frameworks: less ceremony, but just as structured. It uses constitutional prompting, research-based epistemic checks, project context, and durable artifacts so AI coding produces better outputs with managed intent. rp1.run
