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SpaceXAI lead engineer (ex-Cursor): "99% of people are still typing into a chat window. 1% have already hired a team I run 6 bots. My Chief of Staff wakes me at 6am with my entire day, and my travel bot delegates to my flight bot and my hotel bot while I sleep" Chat → Copilot → GrokBot → Bot Teams → Self-Improving Systems Prompting was the old workflow. Hiring is the next one Read how to hire your first Grok Bot in the article below ↓
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They just threw in a reset. Okay. Now they don't even give a heads-up. Oh yeah, whatever, but now I'm not even grateful for it. Because it's obvious that the basic usage allowance keeps shrinking instead. Switch to Grok, guys
Day 15/ Nevermind, we're still cooking... and reset. Enjoy.
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holy sh*t. Karpathy's second brain pattern runs on Grok Bot now: stop explaining your life to AI from zero every chat, keep a wiki that writes itself paste this into Grok Bot: "Build me a second brain with three bots in one group chat. Keep my sources untouched in raw/, maintain wiki/ yourself, file good answers back as pages and run a nightly check for contradictions. Show me the structure first. Do not create anything until I confirm" three bots in one group chat, each with its own memory: 1. the reader takes every link, PDF and voice note you drop and never edits it 2. the librarian rewrites every wiki page that source touches, usually 10 to 15 of them 3. the checker wakes up on a nightly routine and hunts contradictions, stale claims and pages nothing links to → you ask a question: the answer gets filed back as a page, so the brain grows from use, not only from reading → a new source contradicts an old page: the checker tags you instead of quietly overwriting it → a page goes 30 days without a fresh source: it gets marked unconfirmed a second brain can sound sure while remembering the wrong thing every page has to show: > the claim > the source it came from > the date it was last confirmed start with one topic you actually work on, not your whole life full Grok Bot setup below:
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Grok Bot tip that actually worked for me: don't give it "help with marketing" give it "every morning pull 5 new posts from these 3 competitors and summarize what they changed" now i have a daily competitive brief without opening anything myself it's not magic, it's just a narrow job
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holy sh*t , this is gold the Grok bot team just released their own bots to the public import one. connect your tools. done. the top 10 worth taking: engineer bot → supervises coding agents the prs proto bot → turns feature ideas into draft prs figma bro → turns figma frames into build specs startup qa bot → tests your product and reports bugs with steps distro bot → runs campaigns, asks before posting or spending signal prospector → finds buying signals and drafts outreach video editor → cuts raw footage into captioned vertical clips stalk bot → tracks competitors' pricing and positioning haggle bot → finds wasted saas spend and drafts negotiations dr eggbot → describe a job, it builds a specialist bot bookmark this before everyone starts using it, the full guide is in the article below:
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i'm seriously considering switching full-time over to grok bot. it's the closest thing to hiring a real jarvis. i basically run a one-person company now. 54 agents. 17 scheduled routines. they write my morning newsletter, pull my market news and audit their own team for duplicate work. here are the best ways to use it ↓ ↓ save this, then check out the full guide on hiring grok bot below
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SpaceXAI dropped a 12-page PDF on the best GrokBot use cases read it and you'll use GrokBot better than 95% of people - what the bot is - which use cases work today - how to deploy it without burning trust > step 1 - every working use case has one shape read, check, apply a rule, write a draft if your task fits, the bot can take it > step 2 - five checks before handoff repeatable, cross-system, rule-based, draft-first, cheap to get wrong fails one? add a gate or wait > step 3 - start with sales 36 LinkedIn drafts queued overnight, none sent without review no team has more agent-ready work > step 4 - engineering gets bug repro, CI/CD watch and dependency audits the bot picks up the ticket, hits staging and hands back a repro pack > step 5 - operations hands over inbox, expenses and travel the bot logs into portals that have no API finance gets 8-12 hours back at month-end > step 6 - marketing owns 13 of the 56 roles paid media, content calendars, competitor watch all overnight, all draft-first > step 7 - the approval line every documented use case stops before external action nothing gets sent, booked or paid without you > step 8 - roll out over four weeks watch, review everything, review flags, then a scheduled routine skip a week and the risk stacks up > step 9 - the fleet a Chief of Staff bot on top, specialists below, bots messaging each other you stop being the middleman > step 10 - rank tasks by the cost of a mistake the bot nails 49 in a row then does something strange on the 50th with full confidence keep a human at every exit the result: 56 roles, one playbook the bot takes the 80% that repeats you keep the 20% that matters the full breakdown of a 24/7 GrokBot agent is in the article below ↓
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Grok New Plan Update Plans for the subscription have changed on October 12, here's a simple summary for those mainly using Grok Imagine ↓ → Plus: ・Image generation available / No video ・X Blue Badge → Premium: ・Former SuperGrok package / Video available ・X Premium+ ・Grok Bot → Super/Ultra: ・For those who want to significantly increase usage If you want to generate videos as well, choose Premium and up. Images show early bird discount prices. It seems the discount amount varies by account. Check if you're eligible ↓
Grok is now part of The X Subscription. Get Grok, Cursor, and X Premium benefits in one plan starting at $8/month, with five tiers to choose from. Subscribe today, or if you're already on SuperGrok, head to your account settings to switch to The X Subscription.
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I'm completely done with Grok Bots waking up 8,640 times each month only to discover that nothing has changed. A single routine that operates every 5 minutes costs about $397 per month at Grok 4.6 API pricing. If you run it once an hour, the cost decreases to $33. It's the same bot performing the same task, but the expense is twelve times higher than expected. Here's how I would organize a team of six bots that truly makes sense during the night. [the setup looks like this] 1. The chief directs events, not just noise. 2. The scout verifies what has actually changed. 3. The quant analyzes the last saved state. 4. The risk bot indicates PASS / CUT / KILL. 5. The exec manages safe, approved actions. 6. The scribe records every run and prepares drafts. The key is not to make six bots work harder; it's to prevent them from waking up for no reason. By adding an inexpensive change check before each full run, my cost model decreases from $397 to $45, which is a reduction of 89%. Any risky actions at 3 a.m. remain as drafts until you're awake. That's the Grok Bot arrangement I would genuinely trust overnight. Grab the full setup in the article below:
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we have literally reached a point where a non-tech guy can one-shot your product/SaaS in one evening 💀😭
New on our Engineering blog: Creating in-house source control. In May, we merged around 2,500 code changes per day. In September, we merged more than 30,000 per day. As a result, we became bottlenecked by developer infrastructure built for human (rather than agent) scale. Here, we share how we built a new version control system—and fully migrated our monorepo from git—in five months: anthropic.com/engineering/re…
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Grok Bot just planned and booked my entire trip to Tokyo. All I did was ask. It researched options, compared prices, and made the bookings with my card. Elon used it to buy LEGO for his kids. I wanted to see if it could handle a full trip. It did. No more endless searching, comparing flights, or filling out forms. I just handed it over. Now I’m wondering what else I can take off my to-do list. Full breakdown in my article ↓
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Lars Blackmore (SpaceX Engineer) He just released a prompt that turns one Grok Bot into an entire project team It's f*cking unreal... Bookmark and send it to your Grok Bot and thank me later Then read the full roadmap with examples below
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holy f*ck, the best Grok bots were built by SpaceXAI's own engineers and they're free you don't need to build a grok bot from scratch. xAI's own team already shipped 49 you can install right now every single one built by their engineers, tested, and live in the marketplace trading bots, research agents, support bots, content bots, all one click away people charge $50-200 for bots like these on other platforms this section is free no prompt engineering, no config files, no 72-hour build pick one, hit install, it's already doing the job most people are still writing their first agent from zero 49 are already shipped, running, and cost nothing more on Grok Bot in the article below ⭣
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