Ian Borders

Put a linear board in your buzz app! The new updated Buzz app was inspired by the deepseek harness plugin system. You can now modify the app to fit your team's needs. I have a slew of plugins to demonstrate this including a linear board viewr, vim mode in buzz, a beeper client, claude artifact viewer, and more. check it out github.com/0xnfrith/buzz-plu…

One really cool thing you can do in Buzz is customize the 'Run on' dropdown in the advanced section of agent creation. For instance, i added "boat", which uses the boat.dev service when starting up an agent. 'Run on' decides where your agent runs when you hit Start. By default that's your own computer. But Buzz picks up any program on your PATH named buzz-backend-<name> and adds it to the dropdown. The program describes its own settings, so Buzz draws the form for you (see the screenshots). So buzz-backend-boat spins up a boat.dev sandbox, starts the agent there, and the agent talks to your relay from the cloud instead of your laptop. Once it's started, my laptop can be closed and the agent keeps running.

So, imagine you sign up for a hackathon, and part of the hackathon is that you must work in a team of four to five people. You're told that you have to work with some particular AI model, and the whole team has to work quickly and decisively toward some particular goal. Now, how do you do this when you know none of the other people, you literally just met them, and you immediately have to hit the ground running? What options do you have available to coordinate a team effort like this? The answer is... Buzz. This weekend, I had the opportunity to take part in Chiang Mai's first-ever Anthropic hackathon, and also had the opportunity to watch how teams were able to coordinate effectively, efficiently, and very quickly, all of them using Buzz. It was an incredibly enlightening experience, not just for me, but I think for a lot of the folks who were there. Seeing everyone's eyes light up made it incredibly clear: this platform is the real deal. This is the real thing. I do think the world is sleeping on this. If you're reading this message and you haven't tried it, you absolutely should take a look.

Opus 5.5 animation created with this prompt: "make me an animation to explain why celld earns its place." There's way more context behind this but i thought the opus 5.5 output was impressive enough to share it here on X.