I Built an AI That Impersonates Me on Slack, and It Was Disturbingly Easy (opens in new tab)

I spend a lot of time in Slack. Most people in tech do. It’s where a lot of “work” happens such as quick questions, async decisions, the “hey can you look at this?” threads that never seem to end. It feels personal. You think you know who’s on the other end. So, a few days back, I just asked myself, what would it actually take to have an AI respond to my DMs, pretending to be me?