Man what the hell happened to System Initiative. It was a super weird pivot from sociotechnical proclamations to a tool I honestly have no idea what it does for me? Is it n8n for agents? Is it needed when I have a bunch of skills that approximate whatever swamp is trying to do? Who knows!

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nickstinemates 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I can't really speak to the sociotechnical proclamations, because I didn't make them.

What it does for you is simple: if you want to automate something, it does. Load the AI harness of your choice, tell it what to automate, swamp builds extensions for whatever it needs to to accomplish your task.

It keeps a perfect memory of everything that was done, manages secrets through vaults (which are themselves extensions it can write) and leaves behind repeatable workflows. People have built all sorts of shit - full vm lifecycle management, homelab setups, manage infrastructure in aws and azure.

What's also interesting is the way we're building it. I gave a brief description in my initial comment.

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emptysongglass 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Ah, interesting, thanks! I think you might consider elevating some of that kind of copy.

The sociotechnical stuff with System Initiative was made by your CEO? The guy who is really into music? And I don't even know how long that product was a thing before the pivot. Not long!

	▲	nickstinemates 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Does https://swamp.club do a better job? System Initiative was a thing for ~6.5 years. I talked to every person who ever used it or was interested in using it in the last 2.5 years. Thousands of them. Swamp is better by every metric; has a lot more promise, is a lot more interesting.