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Jaime DeLanghe

  • 1 episode on Chain of Thought
  • 4 topics covered
  • 1 full transcript
  • Sep 2026 first on the show
Jaime DeLanghe

Jaime DeLanghe is chief product officer at Slack. On Chain of Thought she explained how Slack Code brings coding agents into shared channels, where the channel permissions provide context and access for the agent.

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Latest episode with Jaime DeLanghe · EP 71

Slack Wants to Be the Context Harness for Code | CPO Jaime DeLanghe

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EP 71 Slack Wants to Be the Context Harness for Code | CPO Jaime DeLanghe

  • Jaime DeLanghe says users control which Slack context an agent can access through its installation and permissions. A code-channel task starts with its conversation’s context; she also notes that agents can have broader access depending on configuration. Transcript at 6:42
  • DeLanghe describes Slackbot’s use of citations and search to ground answers in company conversations. Recency and engagement help locate useful context, while she acknowledges that Slack is not always good at determining what is correct. Transcript at 40:08
  • DeLanghe describes project catch-ups as a multi-pass search: find related keywords, search across relevant channels, narrow the results, and then summarize. She presents wider availability of those capabilities to platform builders as a direction the team wants to pursue. Transcript at 47:16

In their words

We're giving our users that ability. So today, an agent that's working inside of a channel has access to that channel. It could have access to, depending on how it's installed, it could have access to all of public channels inside of your instance.

Jaime DeLanghe Slack Wants to Be the Context Harness for Code | CPO Jaime DeLanghe · 6:42

So they've really shortened the loop between problem discovery and product execution.

Jaime DeLanghe Slack Wants to Be the Context Harness for Code | CPO Jaime DeLanghe · 15:13

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