{"podcast":{"title":"No Solutions","slug":"no-solutions-7206062","podcast_index_feed_id":7206062,"rss_url":"https://sovereignengineering.io/dialogues.xml","website_url":"https://sovereignengineering.io/podcast","image_url":"https://haven.sovereignengineering.io/29995d6f3c18f5cd881519e08a34292ccbd2f0996df288e9b125dea69d259eee.jpg","author":"gigi@sovereignengineering.io (Gigi)","episode_count":31,"summary":"No solutions, only trade-offs. Walking towards a better internet through freedom tech, open protocols, and sovereign engineering.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-23T10:21:20.446592+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/no-solutions-7206062"},"episode":{"title":"18: Rewriting TENEX w/ Pablo","slug":"18-rewriting-tenex-w-pablo","published_at":"2026-04-01T16:22:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/no-solutions-7206062/18-rewriting-tenex-w-pablo","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/no-solutions-7206062","url":"https://njump.to/nevent1qqsgqwk69z7lqxzcvv395t7x35nr36n30ky9mm8szhjy2vu8ap63d0cj4c8ah","audio_url":"https://haven.dergigi.com/84427041ddf2052feb6427555f8eee7d3a3619c10bd426e490b1e87e30d8594c.m4a","summary":"\"You're yelling at someone who is lying to you.\" Pablo & Gigi take a drive. Recorded December 2025. Listen on sovereignengineering.io Projects & tech mentioned: TENEX (multi-agent coordination on Nostr) NDK (Nostr Development Kit) NDK Swift & NDK Kotlin (native ports of NDK, vibe-coded) nostrdb (embedded Nostr database) Negentropy / NIP-77 (efficient event sync) NIP-60 (Cashu wallets on Nostr) Vercel AI SDK (multi-provider LLM abstraction) Notedeck & Nostur Olas (rebuilt with TENEX agents) In this dialogue: Bitcoiners in cars getting coffee: recording from the sun visor, Seinfeld style TENEX rewritten \"about a hundred times,\" now in TypeScript on Vercel AI SDK The pain of supporting every LLM provider: Gemini returns encrypted reasoning tokens, every API has different subtleties Removing structure to improve performance: deleting 80% of agent code makes agents work better Agents defining their own workflow phases instead of having phases imposed on them Composable workflows: the CEO agent doesn't need to know what the engineering director's workflow looks like The parallel to human organizations: you can't hold all the information in your own mind John Vervaeke and the idea that dialogue is how you solve the really hard problems Participatory knowing: you don't understand Bitcoin until you actually use it Agent wallets removed because \"there was nothing for them to actually buy\" -- a commune with no walls $700/month running Opus for everything, replacing \"like fucking 30 people\" Context windows are a non-issue when the hierarchy is deep enough: each atomic agent finishes fast Henry Ford's insight applied to agents: each worker does an incredibly stupid task that takes five minutes Agents are bad at self-correction, so they delegate competing implementat…","meta_description":"\"You're yelling at someone who is lying to you.\" Pablo & Gigi take a drive. Recorded December 2025. Listen on sovereignengineering.io Projects & t…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2769,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/no-solutions-7206062/episodes/18-rewriting-tenex-w-pablo/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/no-solutions-7206062/18-rewriting-tenex-w-pablo.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}