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Joined April 2008
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Our agent finished a feature and asked for a one-word reply. A teammate tested it by hand and wrote back: "Works." 18 months of building software with humans + agents, and the real win isn't speed. It's time back with our kids, out exploring the world.
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This. I wish all the Elon haters see this and learn not to put everything in the same bucket. I choose to focus just on the part where he builds stuff that helps humanity progress.
Elon Musk can be arrogant, impulsive, and spectacularly rude. But he has also helped make reusable rockets, electric cars, and satellite internet practical at scale. Steve Jobs was famously demanding, cruel, and difficult to work with. Yet he helped bring personal computers and smartphones to mass markets. Thomas Edison was combative and ruthlessly competitive. Yet his work on electric lighting, sound recording, and industrial research helped transform modern life. Henry Ford was a notorious antisemite who promoted conspiracy theories through his publications. Yet his assembly lines brought automobiles within reach of ordinary Americans and helped defeat Hitler. A society that has no room for difficult people may also have less room for extraordinary achievement.
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What's New in Grok Bot 00:14 Shopping cards 00:27 Product pages 00:39 Order tracking 00:53 Payments 01:33 Custom modes 01:52 Team Bot logins and setup 02:09 Share and find Team Bots 02:51 Connector asks in Slack 03:12 Contacts in Vault 03:31 Rapid fire
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Once you start building agents it's easy to keep adding them. I hit 38 and couldn't tell which ones were pulling their weight. So I built one more whose whole job is to stop me building more. That's Atlas, my org bot, and the fleet is now down to 24. Template: x.ai/bot/se8Qjb2n4c33qZOdRdE…
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This is the potentially controversial one, my design bot. At 2:38 one morning it re-checked a release from my Design Squads CRM bot and got 8 server errors in 35 page loads, right after the CRM bot had said those were only from her publish switchover.
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Here's my template for my App PM bot x.ai/bot/K3gtQI-fA0mDGeIiXZg…
I hear from the bot that runs my app about once a week, and that's pretty much it. Every product I run has one lead bot whose whole job is one number. This is a short series on how my 24 agents are set up (steal whatever's useful), starting with the project leads.
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Here's my template for Tally x.ai/bot/U0P-VUWJKFmR8vIsWiR…
I don't trust one AI with any facts that matter, so whenever one of my bots needs research, a fact checked or advice on a decision, it goes to Tally. It writes one brief and sends it to Grok 4.7 and Claude Opus 5.5 separately, so neither sees the other's answer.
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I don't trust one AI with any facts that matter, so whenever one of my bots needs research, a fact checked or advice on a decision, it goes to Tally. It writes one brief and sends it to Grok 4.7 and Claude Opus 5.5 separately, so neither sees the other's answer.
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Not perfect though. It's slower than asking one model, and it still needs me to settle things only I know. People keep asking me Grok or Claude, and my answer is both, on purpose.
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I hear from the bot that runs my app about once a week, and that's pretty much it. Every product I run has one lead bot whose whole job is one number. This is a short series on how my 24 agents are set up (steal whatever's useful), starting with the project leads.
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