Slack Made Me 1.8x Faster With AI Agents (Here's the Setup)

8 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speaker outlines a productivity workflow that combines Slack with AI agents and a dual‑monitor setup. He explains that Slack’s threaded replies and the ability to pop each chat into its own window make it especially suitable for interacting with AI assistants such as Hermes, OpenClaw, NemoClaw, and Claude. After adding a new Studio Display to create a two‑monitor environment, he reports a personal experiment where, over a 2.5‑hour session, his work output was measured to be about 1.8 times faster compared to previous periods. The speaker recommends using Slack as the central hub for AI‑augmented work and pairing it with a second monitor to maximize speed and efficiency.

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So now let's talk about 7 AI work tools for 2026. We're gonna go one more and then we have a bunch of classics here, okay? So 7 AI work tools. So work tool for me, actually, Neil, the way I see it now is Slack has been incredible. And I was talking about this with a friend today. The reason why Slack is so good for AI work is because when your agents work, you have threaded replies for the agents and you can actually every chat— I didn't know you can do this until recently, Neil. You can actually open each chat into a new window. So I got a new monitor over the weekend. I said I got a new Studio Display. Oh, nice. And now I'm way faster now. I used to have double monitor in college, but now I'm back to double monitor. I'm like, whoa, I'm an idiot for not having double monitor because then I started working with the agent, right? And then I worked for like 2.5 hours on Sunday and I was like, hey, how much faster am I compared to like a similar period of work time and compared to like 5 different periods in the last couple weeks? And then it did a calculation. You could see it working, right? It's like you are 1.8x faster because you're able to— the turns of work, you're able to do way more now. So anyway, I'm giving you a 2-in-1 here. Use Slack with your agents, whether it's Hermes, OpenClaw, NemoClaw, Claude, whatever you want, and then get a second monitor too.