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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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