Slack is launching collaborative vibe-coding channels
The Verge Jess Weatherbed ● Covered by 4 sources
Slack is adding code channels so teams can build with AI inside Slack. It keeps coding, chat, and previews in one place instead of hopping around tools.
Based on reporting by The Verge, Jess Weatherbed — read the original for the full story.
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Slack is turning its chat app into a place where coding work can happen in public, project-specific channels. The new Slack Code setup is aimed at teams that want to use AI agents without dragging the work across half a dozen other tools and side conversations.
The pitch is simple: when someone has an idea, needs a feature, wants to update a web page, or has to fix a bug, they can tag in a coding agent and let it start a dedicated channel for that task. Slack named Anthropic’s Claude and Cognition’s Devin as examples of the agents it wants people to call in.
Once that channel exists, the work stays attached to the project. Slack says the channels are open and project-specific, with dedicated tabs for users. It also says the new setup can compare code changes and show HTML previews before anything ships.
That’s the real angle here. Slack isn’t just sprinkling AI on top of chat; it’s trying to make the chat itself the workspace for coding collaboration. If it works, the noisy back-and-forth that usually lives in one app while the code lives in another gets pulled into a single thread. If it doesn’t, it’s just another place for teams to watch an agent type.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is classic Slack: take something people already do elsewhere and try to make it socially visible inside the product. That can be useful, but it also turns coding into a performance sport, which is exactly the kind of thing AI companies keep mistaking for productivity. The winning move is still boring old coordination, just with fewer tabs and more guardrails.
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