Slack Code

jez

Somehow I was hopeful that this would be an announcement about adding syntax highlighted code blocks to Slack messages.

lapkaaaa

But why, it brings literally nothing to the table

ashton314

Someone please wake me up from this fever dream

vehemenz

Given 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

Is this basically trying to do something similar to Zed's https://delta.dev/ , but from Slack instead of an IDE?

fHr

wish i could use slack again, stuck with teams and the code sharing experience is meh

arscan

> 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.

theflyingelvis

A new way to make Slack more annoying

sph

At 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.

abixb

SaaS companies have run out of ideas. No one truly needs another coding agent. I weep for SaaS's future.

sidcool

Coding in slack was not on my bingo card.

syntheticnature

Hey 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?

jonstaab

Oh look it's a Buzz clone https://buzz.xyz/

krudnicki

When 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

Slack is fine, but the moment they start bringing that stuff into Jira...

paxys

I 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

I'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.

lasisdabomb

Sounds 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

The title got me thinking Slack had open source its code

wolttam

This 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.