They turned workplace chat into a notification casino where every ping is a slot machine pull. Now they want to add Slackbot AI to coordinate your work — because what busy professionals really need is a robot scheduling their existential dread. | They're charging enterprises for AI that can't think while teams average 43 apps already. Forty-three! They built a digital filing cabinet with a chatbot receptionist and called it the future of work. | Your Slackbot summary will be as useful as asking Siri to do your taxes.
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