Viktor: AI Coworker That Lives in Slack
summary
Viktor is an AI employee that lives in Slack with 3,000 integrations and no web UI, executes tasks that can take 10 minutes and inherits whoever connects an integration first. Scaling exposes concrete failures: cross-channel context leaks, memory isolation across hundreds of users, handling edits/deletes/reactions as input, and user-facing drops in personality when swapping Opus for GPT 5.4. Includes scoped integrations, proactive workflow triggers, and measurable surprises around latency, trust, and access control.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:57From web to company-wide AI
- 4:24Victor as email agent
- 5:27Victor in Slack
- 6:32Memory and context in Slack
- 8:21Why Slack for AI
- 10:09Slack interaction modes
- 11:54AI personality tone
- 13:19Proactive suggestions and security
- 14:39Victor vs desktop agents
- 16:01Victor as a hire
- 17:06Three pillars for AI coworker
- 18:07Vision for AI employees
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