OM DENNE EPISODE
Frances Coronel is a senior software engineer on the agentic SDLC team at Slack, where she builds AI-powered developer tooling and helps enable engineers and non-engineers alike in the agentic era.
In this episode of The Hangar DX podcast,, Ankit Jain, CEO of Aviator, talks to Frances about :
How Slack is shifting from solo, one-to-one development to multiplayer collaboration with agents
Why overindexing on sharing custom setups is more valuable than formal enablement programs
The PR review crisis that comes when your merge volume doubles and your review process doesn't change
Chapters
00:00 Introduction to DevXP at Slack
01:29 Understanding DevXP and Its Evolution
06:43 The Shift to Multiplayer Collaboration
09:57 Internal Workshops and Upskilling for AI Tools
14:03 The Dashboard for Tool Discovery and Usage
18:51 Tokenmaxxing and Its Implications
21:11 Democratizing Tool Building and Standardization
25:57 Challenges in PR Review Processes
30:59 Future Focus: Enablement and System Rethinking
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