Listen "#08 - Navigating the Vibe"
Episode Synopsis
"With the shift towards this multi-agent collaboration and orchestration world, you need a neutral substrate that has money, identity, cryptography, and web-of-trust baked in, to make everything work."
Pablo & Gigi are getting high on glue nostr.
Books and articles mentioned:
Saving beauty by Byung-Chul Han
LLMs as a tool for thought by Amelia Wattenberger
In this dialogue:
vibeline & vibeline-ui
LLMs as tools, and how to use them
Vervaeke: AI thresholds & the path we must take
Hallucinations and grounding in reality
GPL, LLMs, and open-source licensing
Pablo's multi-agent Roo setup
Are we going to make programmers obsolete?
"When it works it's amazing"
Hiring & training agents
Agents creating RAG databases of NIPs
Different models and their context windows
Generalists vs specialists
"Write drunk, edit sober"
DVMCP.fun
Recklessness and destruction of vibe-coding
Sharing secrets with agents & LLMs
The "no API key" advantage of nostr
What data to trust? And how does nostr help?
Identity, web of trust, and signing data
How to fight AI slop
Marketplaces of code snippets
Restricting agents with expert knowledge
Trusted sources without a central repository
Zapstore as the prime example
"How do you fight off re-inventing GitHub?"
Using large context windows to help with refactoring
Code snippets for Olas, NDK, NIP-60, and more
Using MCP as the base
Using nostr as the underlying substrate
Nostr as the glue & the discovery layer
Why is this important?
Why is this exciting?
"With the shift towards this multi-agent collaboration and orchestration world, you need a neutral substrate that has money/identity/cryptography and web-of-trust baked in, to make everything work."
How to single-shot nostr applications
"Go and create this app"
The agent has money, because of NIP-60/61
PayPerQ
Anthropic and the genius of mcp-tools
Agents zapping & giving SkyNet more money
Are we going to run the mints?
Are agents going to run the mints?
How can we best explain this to our bubble?
Let alone to people outside of our bubble?
Building pipelines of multiple agents
LLM chains & piped Unix tools
OpenAI vs Anthropic
Genius models without tools vs midwit models with tools
Re-thinking software development
LLMs allow you to tackle bigger problems
Increased speed is a paradigm shift
Generalists vs specialists, left brain vs right brain
Nostr as the home for specialists
fiatjaf publishing snippets (reluctantly)
fiatjaf's blossom implementation
Thinking with LLMs
The tension of specialization VS generalization
How the publishing world changed
Stupid faces on YouTube thumbnails
Gaming the algorithm
Will AI slop destroy the attention economy?
Recency bias & hiding publication dates
Undoing platform conditioning as a success metric
Craving realness in a fake attention world
The theater of the attention economy
What TikTok got "right"
Porn, FoodPorn, EarthPorn, etc.
Porn vs Beauty
Smoothness and awe
"Beauty is an angel that could kill you in an instant (but decides not to)."
The success of Joe Rogan & long-form conversations
Smoothness fatigue & how our feeds numb us
Nostr & touching grass
How movement changes conversations
LangChain & DVMs
Central models vs marketplaces
Going from assembly to high-level to conceptual
Natural language VS programming languages
Pablo's code snippets
Writing documentation for LLMs
Shared concepts, shared language, and forks
Vibe-forking open-source software
Spotting vibe-coded interfaces
Visualizing nostr data in a 3D world
Tweets, blog posts, and podcasts
Vibe-producing blog posts from conversations
Tweets are excellent for discovery
Adding context to tweets (long-form posts, podcasts, etc)
Removing the character limit was a mistake
"Everyone's attention span is rekt"
"There is no meaning without friction"
"Nothing worth having ever comes easy"
Being okay with doing the hard thing
Growth hacks & engagement bait
TikTok, theater, and showing faces and emotions
The 1% rule: 99% of internet users are Lurkers
"We are socially malnourished"
Web-of-trust and zaps bring realness
The semantic web does NOT fix this LLMs might
"You can not model the world perfectly"
Hallucination as a requirement for creativity
Pablo & Gigi are getting high on glue nostr.
Books and articles mentioned:
Saving beauty by Byung-Chul Han
LLMs as a tool for thought by Amelia Wattenberger
In this dialogue:
vibeline & vibeline-ui
LLMs as tools, and how to use them
Vervaeke: AI thresholds & the path we must take
Hallucinations and grounding in reality
GPL, LLMs, and open-source licensing
Pablo's multi-agent Roo setup
Are we going to make programmers obsolete?
"When it works it's amazing"
Hiring & training agents
Agents creating RAG databases of NIPs
Different models and their context windows
Generalists vs specialists
"Write drunk, edit sober"
DVMCP.fun
Recklessness and destruction of vibe-coding
Sharing secrets with agents & LLMs
The "no API key" advantage of nostr
What data to trust? And how does nostr help?
Identity, web of trust, and signing data
How to fight AI slop
Marketplaces of code snippets
Restricting agents with expert knowledge
Trusted sources without a central repository
Zapstore as the prime example
"How do you fight off re-inventing GitHub?"
Using large context windows to help with refactoring
Code snippets for Olas, NDK, NIP-60, and more
Using MCP as the base
Using nostr as the underlying substrate
Nostr as the glue & the discovery layer
Why is this important?
Why is this exciting?
"With the shift towards this multi-agent collaboration and orchestration world, you need a neutral substrate that has money/identity/cryptography and web-of-trust baked in, to make everything work."
How to single-shot nostr applications
"Go and create this app"
The agent has money, because of NIP-60/61
PayPerQ
Anthropic and the genius of mcp-tools
Agents zapping & giving SkyNet more money
Are we going to run the mints?
Are agents going to run the mints?
How can we best explain this to our bubble?
Let alone to people outside of our bubble?
Building pipelines of multiple agents
LLM chains & piped Unix tools
OpenAI vs Anthropic
Genius models without tools vs midwit models with tools
Re-thinking software development
LLMs allow you to tackle bigger problems
Increased speed is a paradigm shift
Generalists vs specialists, left brain vs right brain
Nostr as the home for specialists
fiatjaf publishing snippets (reluctantly)
fiatjaf's blossom implementation
Thinking with LLMs
The tension of specialization VS generalization
How the publishing world changed
Stupid faces on YouTube thumbnails
Gaming the algorithm
Will AI slop destroy the attention economy?
Recency bias & hiding publication dates
Undoing platform conditioning as a success metric
Craving realness in a fake attention world
The theater of the attention economy
What TikTok got "right"
Porn, FoodPorn, EarthPorn, etc.
Porn vs Beauty
Smoothness and awe
"Beauty is an angel that could kill you in an instant (but decides not to)."
The success of Joe Rogan & long-form conversations
Smoothness fatigue & how our feeds numb us
Nostr & touching grass
How movement changes conversations
LangChain & DVMs
Central models vs marketplaces
Going from assembly to high-level to conceptual
Natural language VS programming languages
Pablo's code snippets
Writing documentation for LLMs
Shared concepts, shared language, and forks
Vibe-forking open-source software
Spotting vibe-coded interfaces
Visualizing nostr data in a 3D world
Tweets, blog posts, and podcasts
Vibe-producing blog posts from conversations
Tweets are excellent for discovery
Adding context to tweets (long-form posts, podcasts, etc)
Removing the character limit was a mistake
"Everyone's attention span is rekt"
"There is no meaning without friction"
"Nothing worth having ever comes easy"
Being okay with doing the hard thing
Growth hacks & engagement bait
TikTok, theater, and showing faces and emotions
The 1% rule: 99% of internet users are Lurkers
"We are socially malnourished"
Web-of-trust and zaps bring realness
The semantic web does NOT fix this LLMs might
"You can not model the world perfectly"
Hallucination as a requirement for creativity
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