Alexis Ohanian says his firm integrated CerebroAI into Slack to query six years of historical data

And the "magical" part is not really for devs who have their dev env setup. For them it's an "oh so what" moment.

It's for: - New joiners - Non-engineers - Devs contributing to codebases they have not set up locally (and now no longer need to setup locally!)

Difference is that that startup I talked about build this integration over a few months (yes, really!) to make it work

IDK how easily Claude Tag integrates, and integrations are the big deal here.

I assume a LOT more vendors will offer all this btw, because CDE + agent + integrations + Slack integration is the big unlock

I will say if you’re a startup but don’t think you can build this, you’re def not an AI-native startup

And yes worth controlling THIS part of your own infra! And not get locked in to any AI lab

Bringing CerebroAI into Slack changed the way we all interact with our 6 years worth of firm's entire history.

This is correct, most larger companies have built this themselves already

And most mid-sized and above companies will absolutely not want this infra to be dependent on a single AI vendor, and they also want to control inference (models, cost etc)

@GergelyOrosz We've built this back in October for our small 8 ppl team, including integrations with source repos, forum, email, cms, and crm. It's really not hard for small companies to build something maintainable and reliable, while having full control wrt models/cost.

@nuqayah @GergelyOrosz pi. was called pi-mom. dev'ed it along side peter back in october/november we kinda spared on things. i got bored with pi-mom, he created an ecosystem :)

you can find it in the git history of the pi repo.

@badlogicgames @GergelyOrosz pi harness directly or on top of openclaw? any general tips/advice?

@GergelyOrosz I think it is a smart move. And Slack is the place. I would expect MS moving into a more shared agent, not siloed.

@nuqayah @GergelyOrosz good times!

@GergelyOrosz yeah, the thing is also more companies realising that they sending all their data into the cloud...

@badlogicgames @GergelyOrosz fascinating, thanks Mario!

@nuqayah @GergelyOrosz og.thread from end of november. 400 LOC on top of pi :D

@GergelyOrosz I built something like that a while ago with @MuaddibLLM (mainly hooked up via IRC and Discord for personal multiplayer use), tried to deploy it to my scaleup's Slack but the compliance / security aspects get really hairy for a bit more mature B2Bs (that need SOC2 etc.).

@GergelyOrosz Honestly it’s not groundbreaking. This could be setup today with cursor automations with a slack trigger and cloud agents. You just need to provide it Jira/notion api keys. I’m tired of people hyping up a slack integration while their major models and future releases are in limbo

@GergelyOrosz we're getting closer and closer to a killer product here, but being locked into one provider is scary. i saw someone say something to the effect of "rent the inference, but own the context" and i thought that was a nice way to put it.

@GergelyOrosz Yes yes magical until the token bill arrives. Then the magical thin is bankruptcy

@GergelyOrosz Can I DM you regarding this gergely? Where I'm working at we are looking into this sort of thing. Or if you could mention someone from that startup who was involved in this heavily

Set something like this up at a startup I was consulting with, and it increased our velocity in ways that let us outpace competitors stunningly without needing to acquire new headcount. At other companies, appsec and security policies made the same setup impossible. Security gatekeepers didn't quite get what a difference a fully integrated system would make. First companies in can pull ahead so fast, it will make those that don't too expensive to compete in a year

@GergelyOrosz Most enterprises dotn use slack