Slack is a really really good product because it is simple enough and works nice - performant, has just enough features but not too many and the UX/UI is good.

Its not a power tool but it gets the job done without getting in the way. You would know what I mean if you have used teams/ google chat etc.

Sure you can criticise slack for being a bit slow, not having nested threads.

For context: slack is the main app I use at work and spend a * lot * of time there.

But OpenAI _can_ beat Slack at these things if they have the technical acumen. But real differentiator comes in having an all in one platform that can help you run workflows. Recall that ChatGPT UI is fundamentally a chat box. If ChatGPT can integrate common workflows like

- send an email to a colleague for something

- schedule a meeting at a certain time

- deploy to production

- approve leaves

- create quick code changes with natural language like "change threshold to 50 in my repo"

- integration with observability and alerting

Then you don't have to leave this tool at all. There's a lot of potential here.

I frequently want to just tag GPT when using slack. Like "hey take this jira task and create a quick pull request" and it will link the pull request in the thread.

Or when my colleague asks me for a meeting, I can tag GPT with something like "hey schedule a meeting later in the day when we both have time".

A prompt ran through a Wiggum loop over the course of a week/month and viola

And you're asking a company famously burning money building a tool that is used for vibe-coding (aka unreliable software development) to build a replacement?

Idk man.

All their integrations kinda suck though, and its not uncommon for integrations to randomly break with no discernible changes elsewhere.