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Ramp's Slack bot points to new coding agent uses
Ramp's Slack bot points to new coding agent uses
Ramp published a blog post about building a Slack bot that ran on OpenCode's embedded server, a use case that impressed Jay and pointed toward future applications of coding agents beyond the interactive UI.
- Speaker
- Jay V
- Source timestamp
- 21:35
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