Slack Code taps into collective vibe, puts AI agents into the group chat
Developers can now invite the whole team along for their quality time with the coding bot
Slack has decided that AI coding agents have spent quite enough time alone with developers and would be better off doing their work where everyone can watch: on Slack.
The Salesforce-owned chat factory has introduced Slack Code, which gives coding agents their own project channels where they can work alongside the humans supposedly keeping an eye on them. Slack calls this "multiplayer AI," which is another way of saying the coding bot is leaving the developer's terminal and joining the group chat.
Tag an agent from a Slack conversation, and it can create a code channel for the job. From there, people can follow what it's doing, review its proposed changes, view live HTML previews, and tell it to change course when needed.
Once the work is finished, the channel can archive itself,...
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