Slack Turns Coding Into a Group Project With AI Agents, Asana Saves $6M Using Codex
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Today we're covering the biggest AI stories of August 21st, 2026. Slack launched Slack Code, putting AI coding agents like ChatGPT, Claude, Devin, Vercel, and GitHub directly inside shared channels where any team member, engineer or not, can watch, steer, and direct a build in real time, with deployment gated behind human approval and finished projects left as a searchable archived record, positioning Slack to own the collaboration venue rather than compete on building the best agent itself. Asana revealed it used OpenAI's Codex to rip out an outdated testing framework in just two weeks for around $12,000, a project the company had originally estimated would take five years and $6 million. Plus, University of Northampton researchers used an AI platform called CenSegNet to find previously unseen cell level patterns in breast tumor samples across 911 samples from 27 patients, linking specific centrosome abnormalities to patient outcomes and aggressiveness of disease, and today's community workflow comes from Shawn, who built an eldercare coordination tool with Claude Code and Codex while caring for his dying father, tracking medications, mood, vitals, and caregiving schedules across family members, then expanded it into a full estate and end of life planning tool after learning the hard way what they weren't prepared for.
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