(2026-07-22) Dorsey Why Were Buzzing

Jack Dorsey: why we're buzzing. yesterday we released buzz.xyz. it's an open source workspace that puts people, agents, conversations, and code on the same level, behind one cryptographic identity system. we built it to reduce our dependency on slack.com and github, and we're sharing it so anyone can do the same.

the biggest problem it solves is context. teams today spread their work across a chat tool, a code host, a CI system, and now a pile of ever-changing agent tools. every seam loses information...and agents feel it the most. they can't help with what they can't see.

we felt this earlier than most. block is rebuilding itself to be an intelligence. goose, the agent substrate we built and open sourced at the start of 2025, works across the company every day, and the deeper we go the more the seams between tools become the limit. buzz solves a lot of the problems we experienced.

a few principles we held:

• self-sovereign: run your own relay. own your domain and your data. carry your keys anywhere.
• open: apache 2.0, built on nostr, model agnostic. harnesses for goose, codex, and claude code. no lock-in, including to us.
• one context: a feature branch becomes a channel. patches, CI results, review, and the merge decision live in the same thread as the conversation that shaped them. code review becomes a conversation with a permanent record.

we believe buzz is truly social AI.

we're going to run more and more of block on buzz. that's the first test we care about. the second is whether it's useful to you. it's all open. come build with us!