I don't actually understand why this sort of thing isn't everywhere theres a discussion. Engineering wise, it's nothing to add. People use grok all the time on twitter.

Is this not something already commonplace? At $dayjob we have been doing this with multiple agents for 9 months.

Maybe we can start adding these things to the list.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641261

It's interesting to see Anthropic branching out into different areas now. First artifacts and now taking market share from companies like devin.

AI enables quick shipping, but the traditional moat of development no longer applies.

No way they announced a new product before commenting on access to Fable/Mythos.

One thing that wasn't obvious in the post: it's usage (token) based pricing, not including in your existing Claude subscriptions.

This is like what you can setup with Hermes or OpenClaw within a few minutes with your ChatGPT subscription or an open weights model, except they handle the Slack setup for you and bill you at API rates.

It's interesting to hear that 60% of PRs at Anthropic is created by the Slack bot. While building a Slack bot is easy, making it look like an AI teammate is pretty hard. This is exactly the gap we’re working on with Lobu.ai — disclosure: I’m the founder.

The hard problem is giving a shared agent durable organizational memory and a real isolated environment where it can safely access company systems and perform work. The agents need a durable log of what everybody at the company is doing, prevent data leaks with proper access control and isolate the runtime to give everybody both private & shared space.

It’s also not tied to Claude or Slack. We see Slack as one interface and the models as part of the harness. It's usually better to combine multiple providers to review the work.

https://lobu.ai https://github.com/lobu-ai/lobu

I actually think that "multiplayer" AI usage is very neat I've done a few things where I made a simple telegram wrapper and me alongside a couple of other people were prompting it at the same time to improve a website design / ux. But definitely not whatever the hell this is, how can anthropic make products so much worse when presumeably having access to infinite fable/mythos.

Why Slack? Everything about this product sucks: bad video calls, no meeting recording, limited screen sharing, janky authentication, and predatory pricing.

They shoudl just expose SDK/platform for people to build own integration with Discord/Teams/mattermost etc. This would allow for fine grained permisions control and speed up adoption. To large degree this is alternative for OpenClaw ?