Slack alternative: We didn't build an AI agent, we built a shell
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Generative AI
Look around. Everyone is busy building another AI agent right now but we decided to go a different route and built an alternative to Slack instead. We wanted a fast, loud, wide-awake room for your team, but when it came to the AI part we made a concious choice not to roll our own agent or just wrap some API and call it a feature. We built a shell. The reason for this is pretty simple. The AI space is moving way too fast, where new models are born, hyped up and become obsolete before the season even changes. If you try to build a chat app around a.