Errbot VS err-forward

This reminds me of a time 10 years ago when the company IRC channel had a bot that was able to interpret python and output the result. We got nerd-sniped for a few hours trying to make the bot interpret its own output as input again. Fun times.

This ChatGPT thing looks like a box that has been opened and cannot be closed again.

Btw, that chatbot from my anecdote eventually evolved into errbot. https://github.com/errbotio/errbot

So I started working on a bot that would live in modchat, able to help us with whatever we needed and something that could be extended in the future. (For those interested in the tech side of things, we originally started by building on the errbot platform before eventually building a brand new system from scratch that better fit our needs.) As we built, we needed a name for the new bot; a few different names got thrown around, but we eventually settled on Bubbles.

Interesting Project.

I'm sure you're aware of Errbot (https://github.com/errbotio/errbot), though not specifically designed with slack in mind: I have had excellent success with this framework.

How does slack-machine compare?

PS: Please forgive the naive question, I'm about the board a flight and don't see anything mentioned or anything radically different about the stated goals.

Some limitations: if I'm on the tramway I'd like to send a Telegram message to my bot, but when I'm on a terminal, maybe I'd prefer to interact using IRC or Slack, if I'm in front of my desktop. Six years ago somebody asked about this in the Google+ group (now disappeared) and later somebody asked for this in the GitHub issues forum Support multiple backends in one instance #1137. But no advances on this matter appeared.

We do not want to do a big change but, maybe, add some code to be able to have a bot communicating via different channels. Or, several bots, each one in a different channel that can pass work to others when requested. This is easy to implement as a plugin, and we can use C&C (Command and Control) techniques, so err-forward was born. These techniques are used mainly in the malware and botnet management. But we can use them for good. In our case, the bots are subscribed to some common channel and they can write instructions there for other bots and read the instructions that other bots have written for them.