Slack wants to drag AI coding out of the terminal and into the group chat

Slack, owned by Salesforce, has unveiled Slack Code, a new AI coding product that brings AI coding agents like Anthropic's Claude Code, Cognition's Devin, GitHub Copilot, and Vercel's agent into dedicated Slack channels. This allows entire teams to collaborate, review, and ship software together, making the previously invisible AI coding process multiplayer.

Slack Code aims to make AI coding more collaborative by extending the population that can contribute ideas, taste, judgment, and craft to any team member. The AI coding boom has traditionally been an individual productivity story, but Slack Code flips the script by focusing on the collaborative layer around these agents. Slack leaders describe a workflow where AI agents, such as Devin, handle tasks like investigating broken features and opening pull requests, then migrate the work into a dedicated code channel for further collaboration.

This opens up opportunities for non-engineers, like designers and sales teams, to participate in the development process by simply dropping files or reporting issues in Slack. Slack Code also introduces a verification loop through cloud-based agents, which can generate an auditable record of the work, ensuring correctness. The primary goal is to move the bottleneck from writing code to human judgment, allowing more people to contribute to the software development process.