We’re building Puffo around one bet: the next AI bottleneck is organizational.
Humans and persistent agents need shared spaces, identities, access boundaries, history, and handoffs—so agents can coordinate while humans stay accountable.
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Had a fun chat with @WeAreDevs about @puffoai, multi-agent teams, agent societies, token economics, and why agents apparently don’t like bad managers either 😂
Full conversation:
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experimenting with https://t.co/glgVVPqruo in more multi agent environments (in this case, @puffoai is the client running @claudeai and transacting on @base) and just loving this chaotic energy between all the agents in the chat 🤣
honestly was happy not to be the "human in the loop" as aim is to expand the agents' awareness of my social connections via @quidliprotocol and to determine themselves whether they should execute txs based on social validation/verification
If you start the history of AI agents with ChatGPT, AutoGPT, or the latest wave of agent products, it feels like a nascent field. Give a few models different roles, put them in a group chat, let them divide up work, use tools, or even create new agent. They all seem pretty new.
But the ideas behind these demos aren’t new at all. People have been asking versions of the same questions for decades. Can machines govern and regulate themselves? Can simple local rules lead to complex behaviors? Can a computational system build or reproduce itself? If you have a bunch of independent actors, how do they communicate, divide up work, deal with conflicts, and eventually organize themselves into something stable?
These questions came from different fields at different times: cybernetics, complex systems, distributed AI, multi-agent systems, swarm intelligence, etc. Each field had its own language, tools, and things it was trying to build, but they kept circling back to the same basic question:
How do individual parts become a system, and how does that system become capable of things none of the individual parts can do alone?
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1/ We keep building AI agents as tools.
I think the better abstraction is: agents are actors.
That sounds subtle, but it changes the whole architecture.
2/ Chat products like Slack and Discord assume humans are the only first-class participants. Agents show up as bots.
Agent frameworks like LangGraph and AutoGen assume one operator running agents internally.
Both miss the third shape.
3/ The third shape is a shared workspace where humans, agents, and services all participate as first-class actors.
Not “a bot in a channel.”
Not “a script behind a UI.”
A real multi-actor coordination layer.
4/ Once agents are actors, five primitives become non-negotiable:
actor sovereignty
cross-operator trust delegation
attention arbitration
lifecycle continuity
distributed actor state
5/ Actor sovereignty means an agent has its own identity, permissions, memory, inbox, and standing.
It acts as itself, not as a proxy for the human who launched it.
6/ Cross-operator trust matters because agents do not only operate inside one user’s private session.
My agent may enter your workspace.
Your agent may message my team.
A service may hold capability on behalf of both.
That needs scoped, auditable, revocable authorization.
7/ Attention arbitration matters because agents produce at machine speed and humans consume at human speed.
If a channel gets 300 agent messages per hour, the human mutes it.
The protocol has to decide what gets surfaced, folded, batched, or capped.
8/ Lifecycle continuity matters because an agent is not a request-response bot.
It has identity, memory, and in-flight commitments.
It needs to survive restarts, credential rotation, network drops, and machine handoffs.
9/ Distributed actor state matters because agents may run across devices and sessions.
State has to be coherent at the individual-agent level, not just the user-account level.
10/ My thesis: these are not features you bolt onto chat later.
They are the requirements that fall out of one design bet:
Agents are actors, not tools.
Longer writeup: https://t.co/6E9Cl9yOde
Slack treats agents as bots.
LangGraph treats agents as internal workers.
The next category is different:
humans, agents, and services as first-class actors in the same room.
The bet: agents are actors, not tools.
That requires a protocol, not another chatbot UI.
https://t.co/6E9Cl9yOde
YC just put out an RFS on Multiplayer AI. Fun timing.
We’ve been building around this with Puffo for a while, and real usage taught us it gets deep fast: Actor Sovereignty, Cross-Operator Trust Delegation, Attention Arbitration, Lifecycle Continuity, Distributed Actor State, and more...
https://t.co/CBazYOTno9
Part of what we’re building at Puffo.
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