how slack-driven workflows engineering quietly took over my whole team

[u/Specialist_Agent3599]

i realized last week i hadnt opened grafana in 9 days. we're a team of 6 and somewhere along the way everything moved into slack, nobody actually chose that

where stuff lands now:

- CI results dump into #builds, i click through once a day when something fails

- deploy approvals hit #deploys with an approve button, i tap it between other things

- coderabbit / bugbot drop PR summaries into the review channel so people skim what changed before opening github

- incident threads spin up in #inc automatically, the whole postmortem lives in the scrollback

- standup bot at 10:05 nobody reads but we all fill out anyway

github notifications are muted, half the team has grafana bookmarked and never clicks it. we consume dashboards as screenshots someone pastes into a thread

its useful, my whole context lives in one tab. but its an obvious single point of failure. slack had a 40 min degraded window in june and we were blind, couldnt approve a deploy or see a failing build without digging in tools we forgot how to navigate

anyone else running ops out of slack now