Michael Nuñez writes about Slack Code, a new product that embeds AI coding agents'', including Anthropic's Claude Code, Cognition's Devin, GitHub Copilot, and Vercel's agent'', into dedicated Slack channels where entire teams can watch, steer, review, and ship software together. The pitch reframes AI coding from a solitary terminal exercise into a "multiplayer" newsroom workflow: tagging an agent spawns a project-specific channel with live code diffs, previews, and a running plan, then archives into a searchable audit trail. Slack argues that with generation no longer the scarce step, the bottleneck has shifted to human judgment, taste, and craft work any team member can contribute to in a shared channel.
- Cognition reported internal merged PRs up 10x while headcount rose only 40%, with engineers simultaneously managing "dozens of agents."
- Security model: agents inherit the invoking user's ACLs with no bot-level or god permissions; Devin sandboxes run with "minimum viable access" and an optional
- Cognition reported internal merged PRs up 10x while headcount rose only 40%, with engineers simultaneously managing "dozens of agents."
- Security model: agents inherit the invoking user's ACLs with no bot-level or god permissions; Devin sandboxes run with "minimum viable access" and an optional
SRE.ai, a Y Combinator-backed startup, has raised $7.2 million to develop AI agents that automate complex enterprise DevOps workflows, offering chat-like experiences across multiple platforms.
The article discusses the emergence of AI agents in enterprise IT, highlighting Orby's development of Large Action Models (LAMs) designed for automating complex workflows. These models, unlike traditional LLMs, process actions such as application interactions and automate tasks in enterprise environments like Salesforce and SAP. The concept of 'traces,' sequences of actions for specific tasks, is used to fine-tune LAMs, and Orby's AI agent software stack allows for customization and scaling by technical personnel.
