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- I'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.
by ZeroCool2u - God Teams + Github would be a hell within a hellby altmanaltman
- I think they have Teams bot, but it's bound to a particular user.by anabis
- I never understood why GH didn't introduce chat before acquisition, I wouldn't use it post tho (b/c teams)by verdverm
- They announced something one day after Slack Code: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-08-21-shared-agentic-work...by praseodym
- GitHub has bigger problems at hand. The uptime won’t plummet by itself!by notpushkin
- What 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.
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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?
- Looks 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.by Retr0id
- Is this basically trying to do something similar to Zed's https://delta.dev/, but from Slack instead of an IDE?
- I'd chime in, but I haven't been deemed important enough to get access to delta yet.by vehemenz
- 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.
by ericpauley - Why 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.
by ramoz - Someone please wake me up from this fever dreamby ashton314
- Lean into it.by rglover
- 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?
by vehemenz - We don't need this, just add syntax highlighting in code blocks.by __vivek
- you can't always get what you want, sometimes you get what you don't need.by oldsklgdfth
- they do have a new shiki based syntax highlighter in code blocks `rich_text_preformatted.language`
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 ``` @@@
by thewisenerd - 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.by sph
- I open my editor, I need to implement a feature, I tell chatGPT what I need, it reviews my code and provides suggestions. I then tell it to implement it. I then tell it to write tests. I review the code.
I test it. I have another AI do code review. I push it to test, then after tests to production.
For some common tasks, that I don't find interesting it is great. I do a lot of CRUD, I honestly cannot imagine writing these apps without AI.
It made curious and freed my brain to think about other things. I am now playing with hardware and plan on launching a niche product. This would not be possible if I 100% committed to programming without AI.
by avgDev - Letting it rip and give it full infra, db, dns, all the keys to the castle, drinking from a telemetry firehose the whole time, a huge tangled web of integrations that all kind of works. I think just offloading as much as possible is the state of things.by catfood
- That’s fine, and you’re doing fine. In fact, in a few years you will probably be far more skilled than most “software engineers”.by skywhopper
- I feel like theres so much churn and change there's no point in trying to keep up.by tayo42
- I used to be that person, and suddenly I haven’t opened an editor or written a line of code by hand in 6+ months.by paxys
- Somehow I was hopeful that this would be an announcement about adding syntax highlighted code blocks to Slack messages.by jez
- Oh 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.
- and you're still paying for it so why complain?by fhn
- by znpy
- They are some of the most annoying account reps, too.
Somehow they found my personal phone number. I do have my phone number on my Slack profile, so either they found it from external sources or they are able to read our private Slack data.
- > 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.
by arscan