What evidence is there that OpenAI will be more benevolent than Salesforce? Perhaps we shouldn’t give large corporations more opportunities for data mining.

The real issue isn't whether OpenAI could build a Slack competitor — it's whether they should fragment their focus even further. They're already stretching into search, image gen, video, agents, and an app store. Every great platform company eventually gets the itch to become everything, and that's usually when quality starts slipping on the core product.

Wait the two problems are apparently the price, and the reliability?

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.

Oh my god shut up

> Slack has been on a slow rachet up in prices and has struggled to introduce compelling new AI features

I can think of a few reasons that Slack could be improved upon. But a lack of AI features is not on that list. Slack is effective for async communication between humans. We don't need AI features to accomplish that, and most AI would just be annoying slop. If you are using Slack for something else, maybe AI features would help those other uses, but you also might be stretching the cases for which Slack is a good thing.

signal should just add better API / bot stuff and then we could all use that. there's no way OpenAI would be trustworthy for this; slack certainly isn't

Oh yes please let us hand over all of our real time communications to Sam Altman’s company. I’m as excited about that as I am to use their browser.

OT latent space podcast is great, most recently interview with jeff dean. Worth a listen

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