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Re: OpenAI should build Slack

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Post by idiotsecant »

bsaul wrote: post #78
phatfish wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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still no way to check your email from teams though.

There's no way to check my tire pressure through teams, either. That's a good thing.

Let applications do a thing. The more we duplicate the crappier the original and the duplicate get.

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

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Post by smallmancontrov »

phatfish wrote: post #71
icameron wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My org went all in on Teams over 6 years ago. Removed all PBX systems and desk phones. Pulled out Cisco phones from 20 offices. Ported all numbers to MS. By all accounts it was unremarkable to the end users, and when WFH mandates started it was seamless. Definitely a lot less IT support for configuring and troubleshooting a phone system too. There is far less downtime because Teams will ring through to your cell phon…

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It's fine. Messages sometimes fail to appear unless you navigate away and back and sometimes they fail to appear at all until 30 minutes later but it's fine. This regularly slows down communication and costs company time, but it's fine. It's 2026, classrooms full of children can vibe code a chat app but a $3T company struggles with basic chat functionality. It's fine.

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

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Post by [deleted] »

riazrizvi wrote: post #56

One of the worst ideas I've heard in a while. A company with the premier LLM, asking companies to outsource the platform running all internal communications. What does OP think we are all doing here in business? This is the Ycombinator community edition of Rodney King's famous "Why can't we all just get along".

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Re: OpenAI should build Slack

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Post by FactolSarin »

bee_rider wrote: post #70
riazrizvi wrote: post #56

One of the worst ideas I've heard in a while. A company with the premier LLM, asking companies to outsource the platform running all internal communications. What does OP think we are all doing here in business? This is the Ycombinator community edition of Rodney King's famous "Why can't we all just get along".

Seems like a fantastic idea of OpenAI other than, like, why would anybody else go along with it? It would be like giving all our emails to an ad company or something.

I see what you did there

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

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Post by keithwhor »

A friend and I are working on something like this. It’s more Slack-adjacent; the problem we’re tackling is, “what does a future where agents seamlessly integrate with day to day communication look like?” We’re a little more focused on the developer platform.

We’re embarrassingly early and haven’t “launched” yet but I guess there’s some value in sharing with an audience who might be interested!

We call it “Superuser” [0], the social hub for agent tools. There’s more of a focus on the developer platform, but warning: major WIP! We are shipping huge changes and our docs are out of date...

[0] https://superuser.app

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

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Post by SonorousGarden »

fassssst wrote: post #53

I hate Slack. Total information overload. I’d prefer a tool that encourages people to think more before hitting send.

Funnily enough, from Slack's own testing they could make it that tool tomorrow by changing the input box from a single line to a multi-line input. A la the Hacker News input box we are all typing into right now.

You got me thinking about whether a pre-send message that could theoretically appear: "Given the channel that you are currently in, this might not be an appropriate message. Would you like to reword it, have AI reword it, or send it anyways?"

This presumably would feel absolutely terrible to use, but it might be a way to nudge towards community consensus for how certain spaces would work.

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

solumunus wrote: post #50
hokkos wrote: post #46

If AI is soo productive why do they even sell it and don't hoard it for themselves to build a competing offer to everything ?

No one is claiming that level of productivity.

Oh yes they are. People are claiming 100x improvements, which is completely insane. But they do claim it.
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