Our chatbot not replying in groups turned out to be a Slack plumbing bug, not an AI bug
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If your bot works in DMs but goes weirdly silent in Slack channels, start by blaming your event handling. Not GPT-5. Not Claude. Not your prompt. We lost a bunch of time learning this the dumb way. Our bot was great in 1:1 chats. In Slack DMs it could hold context, call tools, summarize results, an…
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- 2026-10-10 22:11 · DEV Community — AI
Our chatbot not replying in groups turned out to be a Slack plumbing bug, not an AI bug