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Jack Dorsey's AI-agent chat app burns 758% CPU just to load (runtimewire.com)

Each agent in Buzz gets its own signed key on a self-hosted Nostr relay, not a shared bot token. Block says a leaked key can be revoked without touching the human who authorized it.

An engineer at Slack, disclosing that affiliation upfront in the thread, said that's the easy half of the problem: stopping one person's agent from leaking private data into a channel it wasn't meant to see is still unsolved.

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AI wrote 8x more code and shipped only 30% more releases. Coding was never the bottleneck (normaltech.ai)

59% of hiring managers admit they play up AI when explaining freezes because it beats saying "finances." New York's AI-layoff disclosure box was ticked once in a year of thousands of filings.

The thread's most experienced engineers split on the conclusion: one cloud engineer insists the job will go to AI, the missing piece being deployment, not code. The rebuttal: those pet projects replaced no one who was ever hired.