Software development is rarely a one-person job. A request or an idea may begin with a product manager or another employee, before moving through developers, designers, reviewers, and other stakeholders on its way to becoming working code.
Salesforce now wants to put an AI coding agent directly into that workflow to reduce the number of handoffs and additional time involved in moving a software project from an idea to a finished product.
The CRM software provider has released Slack Code, a new service built around dedicated channels inside Slack where a coding agent can be asked to take on a software development task while the stakeholders involved follow its progress, provide context and intervene as needed.
When a user tags a supported coding agent, such as Anthropic’s Claude, Cognition’s Devin, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or a Vercel agent, from any Slack conversation, the new service automatically creates a project-specific code channel for the task, including relevant team members, Katie Steigman, VP of product management at Slack, said in a short video presentation.
The channel can retain relevant context from the conversation and give participants separate views for the agent’s conversation, its plan, code diffs, and the option to review the changes the agent makes, provide feedback and steer, pause or stop the agent if needed, Steigman added.
