What people previously said about Slack

Older than the 25 on Slack’s page
“Slack just redefined what a channel is. Slack Code lets agents like Claude Code and Devin create their own channels, work in the open with live diffs and previews, then archive themselves into an audit log when done.”
nicolecariello · x ·
“Personally I use slack. So it integrates into my everyday work seamlessly.”
Taiko3615 · reddit ·
“I use slack for work so it's nice to have it already available with a tool I utilize daily”
dillonlara115 · reddit ·
“Slack is probably much lighter weight for tokens. Hermes has to use tools and process email.”
Mondernborefare · reddit ·
“So much capability and a channel for each of my 10 agents as well as protect channels that keep my several projects segregated.”
Ok-Tour1779 · reddit ·
“I dicked around with using Slack and Telegram and it was a nightmare going through their bot bullshit.”
flairtestuser123 · reddit ·
“Much better UI and UX, no reason to not use a more professional tool if I do professional work.”
fleperson · reddit ·
“Slack feels professional and it works for me.”
No-Equal3723 · reddit ·
“Why does slack get no love? I set up a few free slack accounts and it works great.”
gazooglez · reddit ·
“I have 20+ AI agents that my team interacts with and uses, from every platform we use, all in Slack for easy messaging. My most used ones:”
mrsharma · x ·
“you will see all messages from slack, discord, email. all in one app”
__morse · x ·
“Grok bot is a Slack workspace with cloud agents and you are using claude code still.”
hovinthenorth · x ·
“does anyone know if there's a workaround to get the ChatGPT->Slack connector to connect more than 1 workspace?”
andrewchen · x ·
“I routinely ask it to give me context on slack threads. It’s super helpful and I can ask it the question that’s actually on my mind “is this person full of shit or should I take their complaint seriously””
Cylindrical_Jester · reddit ·
“It’s useful for keeping track of what is happening in a noisy slack instance, what are my team up to what have they achieved, what are they having issues with, etc if you can’t keep tabs on everything you can use Slack’s AI to do this for less tokens, it’s not as good.”
PmUsYourDuckPics · reddit ·
“Giving me key things to follow up on from slack channels I’m in. Catching me up on relevant research/news (I lead a research org in the AI space).”
b1e · reddit ·
“\- Lots of summaries of various things (slack, email, docs comments, etc.)”
MafiaMan456 · reddit ·
“The work team wants to use WhatsApp over Slack”
Sea_Fix_567 · reddit ·
“Most of my team is on the west coast, so I'd wake up and Slack would have 40 bolded channels, each with like 30”
jgreze · x ·
“Cognition is introducing Slack Code in Devin, giving Devin dedicated Code Channels for larger coding tasks that start inside Slack.”
WesRoth · x ·
“I 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.”
drfloyd51 · hn ·
“Slack is the perfect UI for AI chat apps because it’s broken down collaboration into primitives.”
AzianMike · x ·
“You take an employee that knows everything out of just slack and have it where you need it.”
landforce · x ·
“It’s much better than Slack for this. And I can search and find my email and their responses for all of eternity (I’ve got every email going back 20+ years instantly searchable in outlook, good luck finding a slack message from a month ago much less a decade).”
prepend · hn ·
“Slack just launched Slack Code, Amp Code just launched messaging teammates, idk whether to code in my messaging app or message in my coding app”
seejayhess · x ·
“We're clearly HYPE...slack channels going OFF 🤩🎉👏”
Topstep · x ·
“Admin in slack instance. Still can’t figure out how to enable or use this, even when I look in the slack marketplace 🤦‍♂️”
trevin · x ·
“My current agent setup, in Slack/Google Chat:”
fofrAI · x ·
“Slack is a really intuitive entry point for workplace AI.”
XOptimiser · x ·
“The slack music that plays when someone airs your huddle feels like rage bait”
oyinkanbadejo · x ·
“Feel like Slack should have went deeper into project management.”
chrisorzy · x ·
“as long as slack continues to focus on being the best place for any agent / harness, instead of trying to force-feed the world a "slack agent"”
charlespacker · x ·
“We are seeing Slack as the hub for communication, actions, and work. Teams have chosen Slack as the place to receive all their updates, AI reviews, email drafts, daily reports, and more.”
rohitdotmittal · x ·
“Love how they are tapping the goldmine that is slack. This looks so cool in that it's coding agent independent (esp in a world of rapidly changing frontier) and also natively in slack.”
nrmehta · x ·