Are you rebuilding the Slack or Teams layer every time they ship an AI agent?
Summary
A developer discusses the ongoing challenge of integrating AI agents into Slack and Microsoft Teams, noting that the integration layer—thread context, auth, streaming, permissions—often requires rebuilding despite improvements in agent logic tools like LangGraph and CrewAI.
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