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- jez 1mo agoSomehow I was hopeful that this would be an announcement about adding syntax highlighted code blocks to Slack messages.
- lapkaaaa 1mo agoBut why, it brings literally nothing to the table
- Etheryte 1mo agoThis is the easiest sell of the century, product can discuss and implement changes without ever getting engineering involved. Or at least that's the theory, I think everyone here can think of a number of reasons to have reservations on this front.
- syspec 1mo agoIn what? Like changing the color of the button of a website? How does that render in situ? For anything meaningful you need a preview environment
- jakevoytko 1mo agoThey see the entire universe building their own version of Claude Tag and custom internal bots connected to your internal ecosystem, and realizing that they can fight for some enterprise revenue within their own product that everyone else is currently extracting
- gk1 1mo agoSlack wants to be primary place people do their work. And they're almost there... It's certainly where you "work" (communicate) with people, it's where many engage with and/or control other platform like project trackers, and it's increasingly the place you interact with whatever AI agents your company uses. It makes perfect send they want to bring the coding agent into the fold (into their UI) as well. And, given Anthropic's release of Claude Tag, they're probably not wrong about that.
- dzhiurgis 1mo agoYeah it's been an obvious pivot for a while now. Airtable kinda has something like this where you can collab with AI and team to build their thing.
- ashton314 1mo agoSomeone please wake me up from this fever dream
- rglover 1mo agoLean into it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0GFRcFm-aY
- vehemenz 1mo agoGiven that like omnigent and qm already integrate with Slack, it's not a huge surprise that Slack is building agent capabilities directly in. Personally, I'm getting ecosystem fatigue. Who even has the time to set up pilots to feature-test all these different systems?
- neuronexmachina 1mo agoIs this basically trying to do something similar to Zed's https://delta.dev/ https://delta.dev/, but from Slack instead of an IDE?
- vehemenz 1mo agoI'd chime in, but I haven't been deemed important enough to get access to delta yet.
- fHr 1mo agowish i could use slack again, stuck with teams and the code sharing experience is meh
- arscan 1mo ago> This isn't just a new feature — it’s a new way to build software I imagine they smushed 2 of the most well-known AI-isms together on purpose here to troll the AI-weary. Might as well I guess, if this type of language annoys you then the whole feature probably will too.
- ghm2199 1mo agoThe collective harm that this kind of language does to a human skill of writing by oneself is probably immeasurable (that is until some clever social science researcher finds a controlled way to quantifying this). The full statement: > This isn't just a new feature — it’s a new way to build software: open, collaborative, and powered by both human ingenuity and judgement and agent scale. Teams that build this way won't just move faster. They'll build things no one else can. I am not sure how just drawing contrasts between two things without actually drawing any kind of causal relationship to explain _why_ something is better or _how_ it does it, came to be a good thing. It is the kind of vaccuous statement that some poor tired sod with his remaining system 1 capacity just YOLOd into the blogoshpere and, like you said, the weary who don't know any better get FOMOed by. PSA: you arent missing anything.
- ncr100 1mo ago"Beware the omniscient peddlers of instant wisdom" - my very late grandfather b1913, in my view warning me about people looking for suckers
- abtinf 1mo agoEvery sentence on that page reads as slop.
- darkstar999 1mo ago> What shows up isn't just messages — it's working code, prototypes, and documents, built right in Slack. > so building software — from idea to shipped product — isn't just for engineers anymore. > No ticket, no meeting, no waiting — just a fix, shipped. > This isn't just a new feature — it’s a new way to build software It's the same damn structure again and again. It's so gross.
- theflyingelvis 1mo agoA new way to make Slack more annoying
- sph 1mo agoAt this point I literally have no idea what modern coding is supposed to look like. I still open my editor, type stuff in and run make. All these tools are released daily and they just fly over my caveman head.
- paxys 1mo agoI used to be that person, and suddenly I haven’t opened an editor or written a line of code by hand in 6+ months.
- cavem0nkey 1mo agoSame here. All I do now is spend all day on calls with people whose shit exploded and I'm trying to scrub it off the walls, ceiling and the customers.
- toomuchtodo 1mo agoAll money is green. Ensure you are being compensated sufficiently for your time.
- cavem0nkey 1mo agoYes. No money no work.
- dmd 1mo agoMost of the world’s money is not, in fact, green.
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- baal80spam 1mo agoAh, so then you became a plumber!
- abixb 1mo agoSaaS companies have run out of ideas. No one truly needs another coding agent. I weep for SaaS's future.
- rglover 1mo ago"I know folk's got their ways of doing things. Live where the low fruit hangs, that's how it is." - Charley Crockett There's plenty of ideas, they just don't have them [1]. It's kind of hilarious to watch all of these people copy each other out of fear while pretending they're being original. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMfHYUFeiJo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMfHYUFeiJo
- cavem0nkey 1mo agoSaaS companies never had any ideas in the first place past turning a one off software cost into a monthly one and making you an addict of their crack supply. The coding agent just puts them between you and getting shit done again so they can monetize it. Milk you dry. Seriously just fuck the whole industry and walk away! Go back to emailing spreadsheets and documents around. Save your shit to your own hard disk. You don't need a todo app - just post-its stuck to your fucking monitor. Call someone on the fucking phone. Crack your software or use OSS. Run it all on recycled PCs. Stop giving everyone money for this shit because it's only normalising your subscription future. Note: I work for a SaaS company. They are bastards. They all are.
- altmanaltman 1mo agoLike they say this is a new way of coding, anyone can build ANYTHING and they chose to make another Claude Code and presents it like its an original invention
- shortstuffsushi 1mo agoThis is how software trends go. AI has already had several of these; it started with every site needing their own chatbot powered by AI. A decade ago, every product was trying to integrate some sort of blockchain. It takes time for them to shake out to where they actually belong.
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- syntheticnature 1mo agoHey Slack, how about making workflows less of a pain in the neck to use? In them there is no ability to have branches rejoin to a common path. Worse, an item isn't found in a list it just throws an exception instead of giving me a null item, which oddly I can test for in an if even though it will never happen?
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- sidcool 1mo agoCoding in slack was not on my bingo card.
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- jonstaab 1mo agoOh look it's a Buzz clone https://buzz.xyz/ https://buzz.xyz/
- krudnicki 1mo agoWhen we can code in English, now we can code in group chats. Maybe it’s the future. Where I can join to coding/spec driven channels to observe or help. I would do this - coding/spec driven in public. Hope it will be the future. It would allow also non devs to join.
- jdlyga 1mo agoSlack is fine, but the moment they start bringing that stuff into Jira...
- faxmeyourcode 1mo agoIt's already here! https://www.atlassian.com/software/rovo-dev https://www.atlassian.com/software/rovo-dev
- username_my1 1mo agoI like rovo -.-
- verdverm 1mo agoHave you tried others? You're leaving a lot on the table using Rovo, it's just not nearly as capable
- paxys 1mo agoI feel at this point all new AI announcements can be auto generated by AI. Next up - Slack releases a model router. Cloudflare builds an agents platform. OpenAI acquires a dev tools startup.
- ericpauley 1mo agoI'm going to chock this one up as a yet-another "X is your agentic coding hub" PR nonsense. What are people actually using to manage semi-collaborative agentic coding workflows nowadays? We've moved from on-dev-machine coding to @claude in GitHub, but of course GitHub purposefully weakens the capability of that approach to the point that it's kind of a hack. Github/Linear have somewhat more cohesive experiences but it still feels like tooling for agent teaming is quite lacking and unergonomic.
- ramoz 1mo agoWhy did you move from on-dev-machine coding to @claude in GitHub if it's a weaker capability? Im not convinced of any of these cloud or tagging solutions where I get to the point of moving coding away from my dev's machines.
- ericpauley 1mo agoTwo things: (1) models are far more autonomous and run for longer coherently, (2) visibility into the development process was lost in local development. Because models run for a long time autonomously developers need to manage more agents simultaneously. At that point you basically need a tracker for tasks in flux, and compute for each agent. It also means that the interactive monitoring isn’t as helpful anymore. Regarding visibility, developers now think in high level architecture rather than lines of code, but implementation details are still important to document. We also want to understand when agents are hitting pain points. Both of these basically require archiving agent outputs more deeply than just code changes and commits.
- ramoz 1mo agoI see. What would the proper solution then look like for when we should consider moving our teams? Sounds like you you said they're all current ones are missing ergonomics. Do you think it's slack code?
- lasisdabomb 1mo agoSounds useful for a PM wanting to spin up a throwaway PoC. But you’d have to rip my IDE from my cold dead hands for any work that extends past the threshold of KTLO.
- hmokiguess 1mo agoThe title got me thinking Slack had open source its code
- wolttam 1mo agoThis is probably getting close to the right interface for these things, and that's coming from someone who is religious about using terminals, neovim, etc.
- swiftcoder 1mo agoEvery time I'm reminded that Slack is part of Salesforce, I become nostalgic for the good old days
- ZeroCool2u 1mo agoI'm shocked Teams + GitHub haven't already done something like this. But I suppose that's asking a lot from Teams. I've been using Claude and other agents in Slack for some code tasks. It's mostly fine for simpler projects and products. Things like docs or specific libraries. But I'm not really convinced this is the ideal interface yet. Reviews are my bottleneck and GitHub has a great UI for this. Plus, token consumption with Slack is out of control. Maybe in time this will be the way we work, but for now I still find myself using GitHub, a terminal, and slack together.
- notpushkin 1mo agoGitHub has bigger problems at hand. The uptime won’t plummet by itself!
- altmanaltman 1mo agoGod Teams + Github would be a hell within a hell
- apetresc 1mo agoDo you mean Teams + Claude? Because Teams and GitHub have had plenty of integration with each other for years.
- anabis 1mo agoI think they have Teams bot, but it's bound to a particular user.
- verdverm 1mo agoI never understood why GH didn't introduce chat before acquisition, I wouldn't use it post tho (b/c teams)
- praseodym 1mo agoThey announced something one day after Slack Code: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-21-shared-agentic-work-with-github-copilot-in-microsoft-teams/ https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-21-shared-agentic-work...
- Retr0id 1mo agoLooks like a great way to replicate the setup of "four guys standing around watching one guy do the work" but the one guy is Claude now.
- noodletheworld 1mo agoWhat even is this feature? You can’t just “spin Claude up in slack”; it can’t magically just connect to GitHub and your code. I presume this feature basically is like… if you’re already using your agents in cloud hosted runtimes, then you can connect to those agents like you already are, but via slack. … Did I misunderstand? This seems like a non feature; if you’re bring to want it, you can’t have it because you have to setup Complicated External System, and if you’re already using cloud hosted agents, you’re already using it (eg. Claude tag or whatever). So it’s what… a diff viewer in slack? An agents tab so slack becomes like cursor? The videos seem enormously light on examples of how it actually works, did someone find a more detailed example of usage to show why you want this?
- drfritznunkie 1mo agoOh great, I look forward to our next Slack renewal when they foist another 125% licensing increase on us for yet another AI add-on we don't want. This year, they decided that our Enterprise plan wasn't paying for another floor on Benhioff's tower fast enough and so forced an 125% license increase. They then played the game of "if you renew early, we're going to cut you a special one-time deal because we're feeling generous and allow you to renew at a slightly discounted rate, subject to the approval of our deal desk, of course ". barf.
- fhn 1mo agoand you're still paying for it so why complain?
- pjjpo 1mo agoIt's always amazing to me how everyone continues to pay a fairly ridiculous price for Slack. Sure it has it's issues but I think people would get used to it and be just as productive with the free Google Chat they already have if any executive had the guts to say they're not going to waste money on Slack anymore. But never happens.
- kjellsbells 1mo agoIf your enterprise is one of those corporate fortune 500 types that has Salesforce, you basically have to have Slack as it's the easiest, fastest, or at least the least miserable way of interacting with Salesforce. My friends in knowledge-worker America tell me that they are stuck between two megacorp visions of the workplace: 365/Teams/Copilot and Salesforce/Slack. Each wants to own the whole stack, but cannot. Workers are stuck with two systems that dont want to talk to one another.
- drfloyd51 1mo agoI work in a medium sized company. “Everyone” uses Teams. The software engineers use slack. One one hand, it sucks having to monitor two services. On another hand, it is nice having “corporate bullshit” constrained to teams. The styles of communications / culture are very different between the two systems.
- chadr 1mo agoI've been working on an open source project along these lines: https://github.com/chadrem/condotto https://github.com/chadrem/condotto I'm using it with my small team and overall these types of tools are great for enabling product managers and even operations managers to help prototype, triage, etc all sorts of features/bugs/reports that previously would go directly to the engineers.
- i_eat_rocks 1mo agoDo you find this has shifted engineers to review more PRs than submit PRs themselves?
- chimon 1mo agoFeels like a direct response to Buzz.
- dzhiurgis 1mo agoIt's been obvious for a while Salesforce needs to integrate Slack into Salesforce for engineers. I spend so much time in slack discussing features. It's obvious it should at least be able to pull orgs metadata. They already kinda there with agentforce vibes (terrible name), but slack already has nailed chat in general. Having slack bot to collaborate in threads is going to rock.
- __vivek 1mo agoWe don't need this, just add syntax highlighting in code blocks.
- oldsklgdfth 1mo agoyou can't always get what you want, sometimes you get what you don't need.
- verdverm 1mo agono trying required
- thewisenerd 1mo agothey do have a new shiki based syntax highlighter in code blocks `rich_text_preformatted.language` https://docs.slack.dev/reference/block-kit/block-elements/rich-text-preformatted-element/ https://docs.slack.dev/reference/block-kit/block-elements/ri... admittedly i don't think there's a way for humans to do it through the ui currently yet, e.g., @@@ ```lang foo ``` @@@
- plmpsu 1mo agoThanks. I hate it. I just want my agents to be able to read and edit messages and canvases on Slack.