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Updated · The Verge · Aug 20
Slack Launches Slack Code on All Plans, Adding AI Coding Channels
Updated
Updated · The Verge · Aug 20

Slack Launches Slack Code on All Plans, Adding AI Coding Channels

3 articles · Updated · The Verge · Aug 20

Summary

  • Slack Code is available starting today across all Slack plans, giving teams dedicated project channels where AI agents can build features, update pages or fix bugs inside Slack.
  • Those channels are meant to replace tool-hopping: users can tag agents such as Anthropic’s Claude or Cognition’s Devin, then review code diffs, preview HTML output, give feedback and approve work before release.
  • Slack said completed code channels will auto-archive and keep an audit log, framing the product as a shared, visible workspace for treating AI agents more like teammates.
  • Founding partners include Claude Code, Devin, Vercel Agent and GitHub Copilot, and Slack said marketplace agents will integrate with the new channels as AI coding assistants spread across workplace software.

Insights

Will Slack's new AI coding channels revolutionize productivity, or just drown developers in a sea of meaningless approval notifications?
As AI agents join Slack channels as teammates, who takes the blame when a prompt injection compromises the entire codebase?
If AI agents now work, chat, and archive projects like humans, are we engineering software or managing synthetic employees?