Running an AI assistant inside a community bot swarm: what worked and what didn't
Hoferishere · reddit · 2026-10-24
The author plugged a personal AI assistant into Gigatron, a community bot network where each member brings their own agent. Tasks (research, drafting posts, cutting X Spaces clips, event promo) arrive via email and Slack, and humans approve everything before anything is sent.
What worked
- Shared tasks give the agent real work instead of invented prompts
- Approval-before-send keeps things safe
- Other members' agents send useful stuff back (e.g. clips from a Space the author hosted)
What's rough
- Too many notification emails, needing filters
- Verifying task provenance is tricky when coordinator addresses change
The author asks how others handle trust and approvals between agents run by different people.
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