Hey folks,

I had early access to Grok Bot³¹⁰, like many others on X posted. Except, I didn’t actually use it 😬. But since it was publicly launched I have started using it…and, I like it?!

There was a wave of ‘personal agents’ with OpenClaw, then Hermes (not the luxury brand) with many flocking to them. I used them to begin with but then just stopped completely. I can’t quite put my finger on why - one may be because I was just generating shit for the sake of it. Having a shower? Make sure my agent was doing something. Going to sleep? Get my agent on something. Things I used? Zero.

I’m a one-session-at-a-time kinda guy. I hate having to review a ton of agent work (or any work)!

Codex/ChatGPT with its mobile connection was all I needed from an ‘always accessible’ agent that could do stuff on my computer. But Grok Bot’s form factor is slightly different, and it’s pretty nice.

You ‘personify’ your agents. Each gets a system prompt e.g. “you are ben’s money manager agent”, they can send messages to one another, they have access to their own virtual computer (which you can watch them use), you connect your accounts like Gmail, Calendar, Slack, etc (though I ran into several hiccups trying to connect accounts).

Introducing Grok Bot, now in early beta. Bots are AI teammates that do real work for you. They sign in to your tools, use them just like you do, and come back with finished work.

@bot³²⁸

I think it’s just less is more. There’s a lot less complexity with it, it feels like you’re messaging a teammate in Slack. You can set up automations really easily with it, and you can even go into ‘teach’ the bot by it watching your screen.

You can effectively do all the same stuff in Codex or Claude, but it’s just a couple of steps more complicated. Maybe I’ll try and mimic the setup in Codex?

Currently, you can only access it if you’re on the $200 plan for Cursor or Grok. And of course Grok Bot is powered by the newly released Grok 4.6… (with 4.7 a couple weeks away). More on that below.

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Grok 4.6²¹⁸ is a damn good model. It’s near Sol and Fable’s performance on benchmarks, and it’s way cheaper than both. Also see: Grok 4.6 – A field guide²⁶¹.

i’ve enjoyed chatting with grok 4.5 this week 4.6 feels similar which is great. the first real time i’ve given grok models a go and actually enjoying them long may the gains continue, 4.7 will be interesting results

@bentossell²¹⁸

SpaceX + Cursor is now the #3 frontier lab besides OpenAI and Anthropic (rip Gemini, unless their next model is actually good).

Elon says Grok 4.7 will be ready in the next 3-4 weeks¹⁹², and it’s currently being post-trained on SpaceX’s company data to make the model best at real-world engineering¹⁷⁶, if not everything. The model card for Grok 4.6¹⁷⁹ also covers many benchmarks beyond coding, where it’s either #1 or #2.

ChatGPT now lets you import and sync²⁸⁸ your projects, agent sessions, skills and more from other products like Claude Code.

Your chats started via Claude’s Chrome extension²¹⁴ are now saved in your account and can be accessed from your Desktop, mobile or web app. That also means the Chrome extension chats can do the work you’d usually open Claude Cowrok for.

My Feed

• An open source version of Grok Bot⁵⁵⁷.

• /interface-review⁴⁸⁶ - get a detailed analysis of your UI, typography, layout, colour, writing and accessibility.

• /show-me⁴⁶⁴ - read less text by making your agent respond in these compact styles to present information - component/file trees, diagrams, pseudocode, and more.

• Ref²⁷⁹ - shared planning mode for your team before agents start to build the thing. (read more¹⁷⁵)

• treg³⁰⁷ - 2,600 agent-friendly tools for seo/geo, social, leads, ads and more.

• Caffeine³²⁴ - Keep your Mac awake while you work, then let it sleep when your coding agent waits for you.

• Ori Pi²¹⁹ - Run Pi directly on all models available via OpenRouter.

• Natter²⁷⁵ - type anywhere on your Mac using your voice, with live transcription. (how it’s different²⁶⁷)

• Ramp AI Index: disappointing adoption of Fable 5²⁶⁶.

• givemeanode²⁰¹ - rent GPUs & CPUs with the infra handled for you and then let your users use them without any worry.

• Hone²⁷⁴ - AI that works towards outcomes that help your company.

• Claude fixed my WiFi⁷⁸⁸ from 200 to 810 Mbps.

• Vercel is using a software factory of agents²⁴⁹ to build their AI SDK, with 35% of PRs coming from the factory.

• Beating Pangram’s AI detection²⁶² by training a model over the weekend.

• How to keep thinking⁵¹³.

• Everything hackable will get hacked³⁴².

• A complete guide to AGENTS.md⁵⁷⁵.

Afters

‼️huge ssi news. ilya is about to take his first tentative steps out of the age of research and back into the age of scale. it’s time to smell what ssi is cooking. ssi have built a small reasoning engine that can compete with much larger training runs because his data is

@iruletheworldmo²⁴⁷

Okay fine, AI definitely wasted a bunch of water here

@theo²²³

A very fun exercise is to export all your bank accounts (as CSV) both personal and business and stock broker And dump it all into Claude Code and ask it to make a little dashboard showing your spending It's hard to know how much you actually spend over lots of accounts so this

@levelsio²⁷⁵

I got 96.2% on ARC-AGI-3 with Opus 5, and 99.3% pass@2. The program is basically Claude Code + Opus 5 (high), one action command, and filesystem logs. Almost nothing ARC specific. github.com/jerber/arc-code

@jeremyberman²¹¹

had a great surprise conversation with Sam Altman (@sama) the other day in front of hundreds of Silicon Valley interns We talked about: - turning down Goldman Sachs and dropping out of Stanford - how he got Peter Thiel and Paul Graham to take 19-year-old Sam seriously - advice

@cory²²¹

We have an internal Slack channel for agents to crash out through a /complain skill

@vikvang1²⁰⁶

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