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by commitpizza 1142 days ago
I don't get it, sure it's nice to have quick actions in Slack but the types of content I write in Slack/Teams are not usually stuff I care so deeply about that I need to get the help of an AI to improve it really. If I really want something to be improved by an AI I can just pop over to OpenAI's portal and do it there.

It's just short messages, back and forth and I thought that was kind of the point of chat apps? This feature would be more useful in say, an email client where the communication is more often more formal.

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I think improving your writing is the least interesting use case here. How about things like:

* Summarize this 200 message thread and list the key action items?

* Find and summarize a discussion I vaguely remember I had with persons X and maybe person Y on topic Z about three months ago

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That is your workflow. Many places have replaced email with Slack. For DMs people might not care how good the message is but for public channels where there are many recipients I am sure people care about the quality of their message. The fact that it might be more beneficial in an email client I don't think is relevant for Slack as a company.