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#11 - 10x Less Productive

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What does it mean to build something "in the spirit of Bitcoin"?

Pablo & Gigi want to encourage you to apply for SEC-05.

 

Books & websites mentioned:

  • Stackoverflow is dead by Gergely Orosz
  • Sovereign Engineering by Gigi and Pablo

    • In this dialogue:

    • Gigi's vibeline & vibeline-ui
    • Pubcastr aka castr.me 
    • Pablo's thread about TENEX 
    • Alex Gleason's MKStack 
    • What is the essence of nostr? 
    • What are nostr's values, and can LLMs extract them? 
    • Agents and workflows living on nostr 
    • Agent specialization and Roo code 
    • “What would Jesus do?”
    • What does it mean to build something "in the spirit of Bitcoin"? 
    • Hierarchy of agents 
    • Generalists vs specialists 
    • Top-down constraints and bottom-up emergence 
    • Wise architects VS efficient diff-merging LLMs 
    • Where does the human fit in? 
    • Distributed cognition: agents and humans
    • Hiring agents via nostr 
    • "If the human has to intervene, something is catastrophically wrong."
    • Confidence levels of an agent's action 
    • Giving agents money using mcp-money 
    • Offering bounties to solve problems 
    • Stackoverflow is dead
    • Stock photography is dead 
    • Real vs fake photography test
    • Vibe-coding vs regular coding, and how it relates to the switch from analog to digital photography 
    • What is economical, and what isn't? 
    • Dialogue and Dia-Logos with LLMs 
    • Specialization in a multi-agent world 
    • Adding a small vibe-coding widget to every app (allowing users to customize stuff) 
    • Multiplicity VS canonical design 
    • Money is singular, language is not 
    • Jack's original sin: the twitter Bootstrap theme
    • The "other stuff" initiative
    • What's missing from TENEX? Why isn't it fully working just yet? 
    • Rebuilding everything every 3 weeks
    • Voice vs text, sentiment analysis vs tone
    • The power and informational density of silence
    • In-person vs online communication
    • Letting agents learn lessons
    • "Where do you get your ideas from?"
    • Anonymity vs pseudonyms vs government ID
    • Agents need identity, money, and reputation
    • "I own this dude." —Pablo
    • Owning agents
    • Vibe-coding lessons: don't look at the code, and in the best case don't even look at the IDE
    • Human-agent communication: typing vs speaking
    • Why some meetings couldn't have been an email
    • Clearly defined problems vs undefined problem spaces
    • Why TENEX will be in perpetual alpha
    • What is Sovereign Engineering?
    • Why should you sign up for it? 
    • How come so many awesome things came out of it? Blossom, nsite, Zapstore, etc.
    • Who should come, and who shouldn't?
    • How did it start?
    • What's the idea? 
    • "Fix the money, fix the internet."
    • "Ship stuff that lasts."
    • Keep it pure. No monetization. 
    • Focus on exploration and ideation 
    • What's the structure? 
    • 6 weeks, 21 participants
    • Same structure every week
    • Monday Mornings: Orientation
    • Tuesday Talks
    • Wednesday Workshops
    • Thursday: No Agenda
    • Friday: Demo Day
    • Weekend: Hikes
    • SEC-05: YOLO Mode
    • Empower users
    • Optimize for self-sovereignty
    • Bitcoin works
    • Lightning works (Gigi's post) 
    • Build the future you want to see 
    • Madeira: you can pay in bitcoin almost everywhere 
    • tl;dr: Listen to every single No Solutions conversation to get an idea of what Sovereign Engineering is 


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