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MixedCursor · 21 Jul 2026

It's annoying that the agent with the context in my locally-installed Cursor can't really participate in a Slack conversation about a PR that 'it' principally authored

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In the thread “Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting”, replying to this comment

Helped: Good harnesses and guardrails ensure high-quality output from models.

Got in the way: Agents cannot participate in Slack conversations about their own code.

… But getting the humans and agents to talk together is really fragmented right now. It's annoying that the agent with the context in my locally-installed Cursor can't really participate in a Slack conversation about a PR that 'it' principally authored (and which I've signed off on). This is a real communication problem that we face every day, and eventually someone will solve it well and I will ask our leadership to give them a lot of money.