AI Agents Are Finally Easy to Use
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0:00–0:21What's up, nerds? A new AI assistant that will change your life just came out. It's called Grokbot, and I've been using it for a while. I've been grokking pretty hard, grokking pretty good, and it had me thinking, man, I really need to show the world how to grok it good like me. So, in this video, I'm going to show you how to set it up, some best practices, and some ideas on how you can use it to make your life easier and to make you a grokking master.
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What's up, nerds? A new AI assistant that will change your life just came out. It's called Grokbot, and I've been using it for a while. I've been grokking pretty hard, grokking pretty good, and it had me thinking, man, I really need to show the world how to grok it good like me. So, in this video, I'm going to show you how to set it up, some best practices, and some ideas on how you can use it to make your life easier and to make you a grokking master. Woah. All right, so what's Grokbot? It's basically the AI assistant for normies like you. Sorry, that was unprofessional. Let me get serious real quick. Grokbot is an AI tool where you can have a team of AI agents that you can give your dirty work to. These AI agents are called bots. It's in the name. Bots can sign in to your tools, use them just like you do, and complete any task you assign them. Okay, yeah, it's Jarvis, okay? It's Why should you care about this? Well, because this thing can do all the tasks you've been procrastinating all year. It can do a lot of things. They can clean up your emails, they can buy things for you for some reason, they can book your doctor and dentist appointments. I know you haven't done those. They can code stuff for you. It could summarize those annoying 3-hour YouTube tutorials. It could even summarize this video. Please don't do that. I mean, it's an assistant. It has features to be the best assistant ever. Now, some of you are already typing, Sloth, this already exists. It's called OpenClaw or Hermes. Why would I ever use this? I can see you're a person of culture, a technical person, which means you're not a normie. This is an AI assistant for normies, kind of. It can basically do all the same things. It's just way easier to use. Honestly, it's one of the easiest AI tools you can probably use right now. But fine, you want some reasons? I'll give you some reasons.
Watch from 0:00First, OpenClaw and Hermes, they're kind of annoying to set up. Grokbot is not. OpenClaw and Hermes, you got to set up with a terminal, maybe you have to install some prerequisites, you got to set up your integrations, you got to get some API keys, but you also don't want them to mess up your local files because AI is stupid. So, now you got to rent a VPS or get a Mac mini since you're a tech bro, and then you got to SSH into it and install and do that whole setup from there. Grokbot setup is downloading it and then doing the onboarding, and you don't have to worry about your local files because Grokbot has its own computer. Second, and I'm sorry, but someone has to say it. They're ugly. There's a reason why everyone uses Open Clon Hermes through Discord, Slack, or Telegram. They're just ugly. Grok Bot is pretty nice. It's so pretty that even Hermes copied the look and functionality. Let me make this easy for you. If you're somebody that wants to customize it to the max, you should use Hermes or Open Clon. But if you want an easy time and just want the thing to work good, you should go Grok Bot. But before we continue, I have to get this out of the way. This video is not sponsored by them. No, I'm serious. It's not. Okay, you don't believe me? Fine. I'll prove it to you. Here's some things I don't like about Grok Bot. I can't pick the model I want. Not the model, not the speed, not even the reasoning. I'm just stuck with whatever they decide to give me. I can't see the bot's thinking process, so I can't steer it when it starts going off track. I just have to sit there and take it like a good boy when it does something wrong. I can't see the tool calls it's making, so I can't approve or deny anything before it happens. I could probably do this in settings, but why is this not the default? I also cannot add custom MCPs or skills myself. I have to ask the bot to do it for me, which means I have to burn my usage just to set up tools.
Watch from 1:27Would a sponsored video say all of that? Exactly. Which is why the real sponsor of today's video is Brilliant. Because let's be honest, students are already using AI for everything. And I mean everything. You know it, I know it, and the teachers definitely know it. AI is basically doing all the work. They're not even thinking anymore. And hey, I get it. If I had something that spits out an answer in 2 seconds, I'd use it, too. But getting an answer isn't the same thing as learning, which is why Brilliant is trying to fix this with their tutor, Koji. Koji is built for learning. It won't just give you the solution. Trust me, I tried. What it will do is act like a real tutor. It can see the areas you're stuck on, it'll ask you questions, and it can even draw on your screen. Koji will keep guiding you until you figure it out. So now every lesson feels less like a lecture and more like a puzzle you're solving. And honestly, it makes the programming lessons feel more like software engineering because you can reason through a problem with Koji, which will improve your logical thinking and problem-solving skills. School would have been so much easier for me if I had this because I used to be shy and afraid to ask questions. But with this, you can ask as many dumb questions as you want without getting judged. So, if you want to try Brilliant's Tutor for free, you can scan the QR code on the screen or click the link in the description. You'll also get 20% off an annual subscription. You're welcome. What makes Grok Bot so special? Well, number one, it does have its own computer. And no, not your computer, its own computer. All your bots share one computer in the cloud. It has a browser, it has files, and a terminal. And each bot gets its own screen to that computer so they can all work at the same time, which means it can work while your laptop is closed, while you're asleep, gooning on Maine, and while you're watching this video
Watch from 2:58instead of doing your actual work. Yeah, I know you're procrastinating watching this. It can connect to your tools. Grok Bot can connect to things like your Gmail, your calendar, GitHub, Slack, Notion, blah blah blah. Just look at the list here. It can connect to all of this. For a lot of these integrations, it can handle multiple accounts. So, if you have multiple emails, like your personal email and a working email, you can separate them. And if an app you want to use isn't there, guess what? You can just ask the bot to connect to the tool with an MCP or an API key, and it'll make it really easy for you. And if the app can't do that, guess what? The bot uses its own computer to click around and connect. Or, a pro move, if you're a super nerd like me, you can hook up a tool like Composure, and now you can connect your bot to a thousand different things instead of being limited by the plugins. Feature number three, the bots have memory. It actually has two different kinds of memory. A global memory that every bot shares, and then a private memory for each bot's own job. So, you don't have to re-explain everything. The more you use it, the better it gets. Feature number four, routines. You can tell your bots to run a task or a workflow on a schedule, or if it's supported, after an event. So, now you can do things like every day you get a morning news report, every day check if Steam has a sale going on, every hour check if McDonald's is ice cream machine is working, or my favorite, message you when a new Sloth Bites issue comes out. Oh, you don't know what Sloth Bites is? Sloth Bites is just a little newsletter I'm working on. It's currently one of the top programming newsletters out there. I actually don't know if it is.
Watch from 4:29Where every week I give you programming news and advice to make you a better programmer. And the best part, it's free. All I need from you is just your email. Feature number five, you can literally teach the bots. It has a feature where you can walk it through your workflow and it'll remember the whole thing. And it can just rerun that workflow whenever you ask it to or turn it into a routine. And feature number six, your bots can talk to each other. This is one of the cooler features. Instead of you having a copy and paste between two chats, the bots will literally DM each other. Yeah, and you can even have a whole team of bots on one project because you can throw them in a group chat. I'm not joking. And then you can mention the bot you want to talk to and they'll pass the work around and assign an owner. And from then on they'll only pull you in if they need some help. And when you put all these features together, you get Jarvis. A coworker that lives in the cloud, never sleeps, never eats, never asks for a raise, and never complains. Beautiful, right? Anyways, let me show you how to actually set this thing up. You need to do three things. Thing number one, have an eligible plan. I hate to say it, but there's no free tier. I know. I know. Actually, I think Rock Bot has a free trial where they give you a certain amount of credits. So, you can do that, too. Out of all the options, I'd recommend getting it through a Cursor subscription. If you're already paying for Cursor, congrats. You already have it cuz they bought Cursor. Just sign in with your Cursor account. But if you want a nice little life hack, you can also just go on Twitter and see if any Cursor employees will hook you up. Thing number two, the app, obviously. Rock Bot is available for all platforms, Mac, Linux, and yes, even Windows. There's also an iOS app so your bots can bother you on the go, but there's no Android app yet. They're working on it. It'll probably be out once I finish I called
Watch from 5:49it. It's on Android now. Enjoy. Thing number three, go through the onboarding and connect your tools. And while you're at it, there's actually a toggle for whether bots can run stuff on your actual computer. I would recommend you set it to never unless you have a real reason and you trust this AI a lot. I don't really trust AI like that with my local files. I'm scared it'll delete everything, especially my videos. Like imagine if my bot just deleted this video right All right, now that you have Grokbot set up, let's create your first bot. You don't know what bot to make? Well, no worries. I have like a list of ideas. Let me share them with you. Unpaid Intern. It reads all the boring emails you have and gives you a summary of the important ones. Meeting Prepper. A bot that prepares you for meetings for the day and pulls information from your tools to get more information about who you're going to meet with. Prospecting Bot. A bot that'll help you find potential customers or in my case, since I'm a sellout, sponsors and messages them. Gym Bro. A bot that'll ask you about your training progress and goals and give you an optimized plan. Linus Jr. A coding bot that works on the most important GitHub issues. Mr. Krabs. A bot that looks through your subscriptions and unsubscribes from the ones you don't use as long as you approve them. The Average Dad. Checks you into the flight the second it lets you and lets you know when you should go to the airport. You don't like any of these? All right, that's cool. You can check out these websites then and steal their bots. The Grokbot team also has an official use case directory and guides if you want to steal their bots. And they also just added templates so people can now share their bots and you can use them. I'll leave a link to all of this because why not? And once you do that, that's it. That's the tutorial. You now have an AI employee with its own computer and it's already working. It's that easy. Yeah, I told you this tool's for normies. Thanks for watching. I'm kidding. I told you, I'm here to make
Watch from 7:20you a Grok expert. I need to show you how to grok it good and grok it hard. And luckily, the Grokbot team knows how to grok it better than anyone else and they've shared some best practices you should follow. We'll start off with best practices for creating the bots. Tip number one, give your bots positions, not names. I know it's tempting to name your bot something stupid like Unpaid Intern, Jarvis, or Alfred, or Jeff, I don't know. But bots act based on the name and description you give them. So, if you name it something like Email Manager, it'll already know its purpose in life. If you name it something like Jeff, well, what does a Jeff do? Nobody knows. Not even Jeffs. Jeffs, comment if you know what you're doing. Now, technically, you can give it a goofy name. Just be sure the description is accurate. So, if you do want a Jeff, be my guest because the description is also how the other bots know who to hand work to. Tip number two, make a chief of agents. GrokBot can actually create its own specialized bots, so you don't have to. With this, you can just make one bot whose entire purpose is managing the other bots, and just give it your rules. And from then on, whenever you need a new bot, you can just ask the chief. Which leads to the next and maybe the most important tip. Be very specific with bot rules. Do not create bots with broad jobs. A bot that does everything is just going to get very confused. It's better to have a team of specialized bots that talk to each other. I usually organize them with group chats when they're working towards the same thing, or I separate them into sections so I can actually find stuff later. Now, if you want to get better results out of the bots, you should definitely use skills. A skill is basically a document that tells your bot exactly how you want something done. You just have to write
Watch from 8:52it once, and the bot does that task your way every single time. The first skill I'd recommend you make is a grill me skill. This one is from Matt Pocock, very smart guy, and essentially you're telling the bot to interview you. Because your bots will only be useful if they understand how you work. You can get Matt's version of the skill, or you can even create your own. Just tell the bot to interview you and to create that interview as a skill. Additionally, if you're trying to create a routine, make sure to test run it before turning it on. But unfortunately, you can't even see the run history, so you can't see the steps the bot took, which is kind of annoying. That's another thing I don't like. GrokBot team, get on that. And this actually leads to another tip you should probably do is make sure to have an area where the bots can record what it did. Ideally, somewhere you control. So, something like a spreadsheet, a Notion document, or Obsidian document. It's helpful so you can see where the bots went wrong, or areas where it could be optimized. But now it's time to talk about how to get the most out of your usage. Because let's be honest, if you're paying for this, ideally you want to use it for a long time. Number one, chill out with the routines. You don't need a hundred different routines, and you definitely don't need a routine that happens every 15 minutes. Another life hack for saving usage is be sure to use plugins and connectors over the browser. It's nice that GrokBot has a computer, but whenever it does, it definitely uses up a lot of usage. And one of the final life hacks for you programming nerds, don't code in Grok Bot. Even though Grok Bot can code, that doesn't mean you should. If you do need it to code, be sure to tell it to use a cloud agent with Cursor instead. It's the better tool for the job. Cursor and Grok Bot also have separate usage limits. All right, I think that's everything so far.
Watch from 10:22I'm probably missing something, but you can do your own research at this point. Should you actually use Grok Bot? Honestly speaking, if you're new to AI and you're not a very technical person, yes, I think this is by far the easiest process I've seen for getting an actual AI assistant. You don't have to use a terminal, there's no config files. You really just have to download the app and you just have an AI employee. But unfortunately, it does need a membership. It does suck, but to be fair, every other AI tool needs a subscription, too. But if you already do have a subscription for something like ChatGPT, at that point, I would recommend probably using Hermes, since you can connect your ChatGPT subscription to it and you don't have to pay another one. Plus, Hermes is copying the look and functionality of Grok Bot, so it'll basically be the same. Open Claw? Probably not. That's just rough to set up. But I will say, if you don't need all this fancy stuff and you don't need like a complicated AI assistant, honestly, ChatGPT is probably still good enough for you. Not everybody needs a Jarvis. Also, keep in mind, Grok Bot is still in beta at the time of this video, but at least the team is shipping terrifyingly fast. I've had to update this like four times while making this video. Half the complaints I have will probably be fixed after like a month or two. Honestly, this video will probably be outdated in like a week. So, if you're watching this from the future, I'm sorry. I tried. Go Grok hard and Grok responsibly, and I'll see you on the next video. Bye.
Watch from 11:47Full transcript
- 0:00
What's up, nerds? A new AI assistant that will change your life just came out. It's called Grokbot, and I've been using it for a while. I've been grokking pretty hard, grokking pretty good, and it had me thinking, man, I really need to show the world how to grok it good like me. So, in this video, I'm going to show you how to set it up, some best practices, and some ideas on how you can use it to make your life easier and to make you a grokking master.
- 0:21
Woah. All right, so what's Grokbot? It's basically the AI assistant for normies like you. Sorry, that was unprofessional. Let me get serious real quick. Grokbot is an AI tool where you can have a team of AI agents that you can give your dirty work to. These AI agents are called bots. It's in the name. Bots can sign in to your tools, use them just like you do, and complete any task you assign them. Okay, yeah, it's Jarvis, okay? It's Why should
- 0:41
you care about this? Well, because this thing can do all the tasks you've been procrastinating all year. It can do a lot of things. They can clean up your emails, they can buy things for you for some reason, they can book your doctor and dentist appointments. I know you haven't done those. They can code stuff for you. It could summarize those annoying 3-hour YouTube tutorials. It could even summarize this video. Please don't do that. I mean, it's an assistant. It has features to be the best assistant ever. Now, some of you
- 1:02
are already typing, Sloth, this already exists. It's called OpenClaw or Hermes. Why would I ever use this? I can see you're a person of culture, a technical person, which means you're not a normie. This is an AI assistant for normies, kind of. It can basically do all the same things. It's just way easier to use. Honestly, it's one of the easiest AI tools you can probably use
- 1:24
right now. But fine, you want some reasons? I'll give you some reasons. First, OpenClaw and Hermes, they're kind of annoying to set up. Grokbot is not. OpenClaw and Hermes, you got to set up with a terminal, maybe you have to install some prerequisites, you got to set up your integrations, you got to get some API keys, but you also don't want them to mess up your local files because AI is stupid. So, now you got to rent a VPS or get a Mac mini since you're a tech bro, and then you got to SSH into
- 1:46
it and install and do that whole setup from there. Grokbot setup is downloading it and then doing the onboarding, and you don't have to worry about your local files because Grokbot has its own computer. Second, and I'm sorry, but someone has to say it. They're ugly. There's a reason why everyone uses Open Clon Hermes through Discord, Slack, or Telegram. They're just ugly. Grok Bot is pretty nice. It's so pretty that even Hermes copied the look and
- 2:07
functionality. Let me make this easy for you. If you're somebody that wants to customize it to the max, you should use Hermes or Open Clon. But if you want an easy time and just want the thing to work good, you should go Grok Bot. But before we continue, I have to get this out of the way. This video is not sponsored by them. No, I'm serious. It's not. Okay, you don't believe me? Fine. I'll prove it to you. Here's some things I don't like about Grok Bot. I can't
- 2:29
pick the model I want. Not the model, not the speed, not even the reasoning. I'm just stuck with whatever they decide to give me. I can't see the bot's thinking process, so I can't steer it when it starts going off track. I just have to sit there and take it like a good boy when it does something wrong. I can't see the tool calls it's making, so I can't approve or deny anything before it happens. I could probably do this in settings, but why is this not the default? I also cannot add custom MCPs
- 2:51
or skills myself. I have to ask the bot to do it for me, which means I have to burn my usage just to set up tools. Would a sponsored video say all of that? Exactly. Which is why the real sponsor of today's video is Brilliant. Because let's be honest, students are already using AI for everything. And I mean everything. You know it, I know it, and the teachers definitely know it. AI is
- 3:12
basically doing all the work. They're not even thinking anymore. And hey, I get it. If I had something that spits out an answer in 2 seconds, I'd use it, too. But getting an answer isn't the same thing as learning, which is why Brilliant is trying to fix this with their tutor, Koji. Koji is built for learning. It won't just give you the solution. Trust me, I tried. What it will do is act like a real tutor. It can see the areas you're stuck on, it'll ask
- 3:33
you questions, and it can even draw on your screen. Koji will keep guiding you until you figure it out. So now every lesson feels less like a lecture and more like a puzzle you're solving. And honestly, it makes the programming lessons feel more like software engineering because you can reason through a problem with Koji, which will improve your logical thinking and problem-solving skills. School would have been so much easier for me if I had this because I used to be shy and afraid
- 3:55
to ask questions. But with this, you can ask as many dumb questions as you want without getting judged. So, if you want to try Brilliant's Tutor for free, you can scan the QR code on the screen or click the link in the description. You'll also get 20% off an annual subscription. You're welcome. What makes Grok Bot so special? Well, number one, it does have its own computer. And no, not your computer, its own computer. All your bots share one computer in the
- 4:16
cloud. It has a browser, it has files, and a terminal. And each bot gets its own screen to that computer so they can all work at the same time, which means it can work while your laptop is closed, while you're asleep, gooning on Maine, and while you're watching this video instead of doing your actual work. Yeah, I know you're procrastinating watching this. It can connect to your tools. Grok Bot can connect to things like your Gmail, your calendar, GitHub,
- 4:37
Slack, Notion, blah blah blah. Just look at the list here. It can connect to all of this. For a lot of these integrations, it can handle multiple accounts. So, if you have multiple emails, like your personal email and a working email, you can separate them. And if an app you want to use isn't there, guess what? You can just ask the bot to connect to the tool with an MCP or an API key, and it'll make it really easy for you. And if the app can't do
- 4:57
that, guess what? The bot uses its own computer to click around and connect. Or, a pro move, if you're a super nerd like me, you can hook up a tool like Composure, and now you can connect your bot to a thousand different things instead of being limited by the plugins. Feature number three, the bots have memory. It actually has two different kinds of memory. A global memory that every bot shares, and then a private
- 5:17
memory for each bot's own job. So, you don't have to re-explain everything. The more you use it, the better it gets. Feature number four, routines. You can tell your bots to run a task or a workflow on a schedule, or if it's supported, after an event. So, now you can do things like every day you get a morning news report, every day check if Steam has a sale going on, every hour check if McDonald's is ice cream machine is working, or my favorite, message you
- 5:39
when a new Sloth Bites issue comes out. Oh, you don't know what Sloth Bites is? Sloth Bites is just a little newsletter I'm working on. It's currently one of the top programming newsletters out there. I actually don't know if it is. Where every week I give you programming news and advice to make you a better programmer. And the best part, it's free. All I need from you is just your email. Feature number five, you can literally teach the bots. It has a
- 6:00
feature where you can walk it through your workflow and it'll remember the whole thing. And it can just rerun that workflow whenever you ask it to or turn it into a routine. And feature number six, your bots can talk to each other. This is one of the cooler features. Instead of you having a copy and paste between two chats, the bots will literally DM each other. Yeah, and you can even have a whole team of bots on one project because you can throw them
- 6:20
in a group chat. I'm not joking. And then you can mention the bot you want to talk to and they'll pass the work around and assign an owner. And from then on they'll only pull you in if they need some help. And when you put all these features together, you get Jarvis. A coworker that lives in the cloud, never sleeps, never eats, never asks for a raise, and never complains. Beautiful, right? Anyways, let me show you how to actually set this thing up. You need to do three
- 6:42
things. Thing number one, have an eligible plan. I hate to say it, but there's no free tier. I know. I know. Actually, I think Rock Bot has a free trial where they give you a certain amount of credits. So, you can do that, too. Out of all the options, I'd recommend getting it through a Cursor subscription. If you're already paying for Cursor, congrats. You already have it cuz they bought Cursor. Just sign in with your Cursor account. But if you want a nice little life hack, you can
- 7:02
also just go on Twitter and see if any Cursor employees will hook you up. Thing number two, the app, obviously. Rock Bot is available for all platforms, Mac, Linux, and yes, even Windows. There's also an iOS app so your bots can bother you on the go, but there's no Android app yet. They're working on it. It'll probably be out once I finish I called it. It's on Android now. Enjoy. Thing
- 7:22
number three, go through the onboarding and connect your tools. And while you're at it, there's actually a toggle for whether bots can run stuff on your actual computer. I would recommend you set it to never unless you have a real reason and you trust this AI a lot. I don't really trust AI like that with my local files. I'm scared it'll delete everything, especially my videos. Like imagine if my bot just deleted this video right All right, now that you have
- 7:43
Grokbot set up, let's create your first bot. You don't know what bot to make? Well, no worries. I have like a list of ideas. Let me share them with you. Unpaid Intern. It reads all the boring emails you have and gives you a summary of the important ones. Meeting Prepper. A bot that prepares you for meetings for the day and pulls information from your tools to get more information about who you're going to meet with. Prospecting Bot. A bot that'll help you find potential customers or in my case, since
- 8:03
I'm a sellout, sponsors and messages them. Gym Bro. A bot that'll ask you about your training progress and goals and give you an optimized plan. Linus Jr. A coding bot that works on the most important GitHub issues. Mr. Krabs. A bot that looks through your subscriptions and unsubscribes from the ones you don't use as long as you approve them. The Average Dad. Checks you into the flight the second it lets you and lets you know when you should go to the airport. You don't like any of
- 8:25
these? All right, that's cool. You can check out these websites then and steal their bots. The Grokbot team also has an official use case directory and guides if you want to steal their bots. And they also just added templates so people can now share their bots and you can use them. I'll leave a link to all of this because why not? And once you do that, that's it. That's the tutorial. You now have an AI employee with its own computer and it's already working. It's
- 8:46
that easy. Yeah, I told you this tool's for normies. Thanks for watching. I'm kidding. I told you, I'm here to make you a Grok expert. I need to show you how to grok it good and grok it hard. And luckily, the Grokbot team knows how to grok it better than anyone else and they've shared some best practices you should follow. We'll start off with best practices for creating the bots. Tip number one, give your bots positions,
- 9:08
not names. I know it's tempting to name your bot something stupid like Unpaid Intern, Jarvis, or Alfred, or Jeff, I don't know. But bots act based on the name and description you give them. So, if you name it something like Email Manager, it'll already know its purpose in life. If you name it something like Jeff, well, what does a Jeff do? Nobody knows. Not even Jeffs. Jeffs, comment if
- 9:29
you know what you're doing. Now, technically, you can give it a goofy name. Just be sure the description is accurate. So, if you do want a Jeff, be my guest because the description is also how the other bots know who to hand work to. Tip number two, make a chief of agents. GrokBot can actually create its own specialized bots, so you don't have to. With this, you can just make one bot whose entire purpose is managing the
- 9:49
other bots, and just give it your rules. And from then on, whenever you need a new bot, you can just ask the chief. Which leads to the next and maybe the most important tip. Be very specific with bot rules. Do not create bots with broad jobs. A bot that does everything is just going to get very confused. It's better to have a team of specialized bots that talk to each other. I usually organize them with group chats when they're working towards the same thing,
- 10:10
or I separate them into sections so I can actually find stuff later. Now, if you want to get better results out of the bots, you should definitely use skills. A skill is basically a document that tells your bot exactly how you want something done. You just have to write it once, and the bot does that task your way every single time. The first skill I'd recommend you make is a grill me skill. This one is from Matt Pocock, very smart guy, and essentially you're
- 10:30
telling the bot to interview you. Because your bots will only be useful if they understand how you work. You can get Matt's version of the skill, or you can even create your own. Just tell the bot to interview you and to create that interview as a skill. Additionally, if you're trying to create a routine, make sure to test run it before turning it on. But unfortunately, you can't even see the run history, so you can't see the steps the bot took, which is kind of
- 10:50
annoying. That's another thing I don't like. GrokBot team, get on that. And this actually leads to another tip you should probably do is make sure to have an area where the bots can record what it did. Ideally, somewhere you control. So, something like a spreadsheet, a Notion document, or Obsidian document. It's helpful so you can see where the bots went wrong, or areas where it could be optimized. But now it's time to talk about how to get the most out of your usage. Because let's be honest, if
- 11:12
you're paying for this, ideally you want to use it for a long time. Number one, chill out with the routines. You don't need a hundred different routines, and you definitely don't need a routine that happens every 15 minutes. Another life hack for saving usage is be sure to use plugins and connectors over the browser. It's nice that GrokBot has a computer, but whenever it does, it definitely uses up a lot of usage. And one of the final life hacks for you programming nerds,
- 11:33
don't code in Grok Bot. Even though Grok Bot can code, that doesn't mean you should. If you do need it to code, be sure to tell it to use a cloud agent with Cursor instead. It's the better tool for the job. Cursor and Grok Bot also have separate usage limits. All right, I think that's everything so far. I'm probably missing something, but you can do your own research at this point. Should you actually use Grok Bot? Honestly speaking, if you're new to AI
- 11:54
and you're not a very technical person, yes, I think this is by far the easiest process I've seen for getting an actual AI assistant. You don't have to use a terminal, there's no config files. You really just have to download the app and you just have an AI employee. But unfortunately, it does need a membership. It does suck, but to be fair, every other AI tool needs a subscription, too. But if you already do have a subscription for something like
- 12:15
ChatGPT, at that point, I would recommend probably using Hermes, since you can connect your ChatGPT subscription to it and you don't have to pay another one. Plus, Hermes is copying the look and functionality of Grok Bot, so it'll basically be the same. Open Claw? Probably not. That's just rough to set up. But I will say, if you don't need all this fancy stuff and you don't need like a complicated AI assistant, honestly,
- 12:35
ChatGPT is probably still good enough for you. Not everybody needs a Jarvis. Also, keep in mind, Grok Bot is still in beta at the time of this video, but at least the team is shipping terrifyingly fast. I've had to update this like four times while making this video. Half the complaints I have will probably be fixed after like a month or two. Honestly, this video will probably be outdated in like a week. So, if you're watching this from the future, I'm sorry. I tried. Go
- 12:56
Grok hard and Grok responsibly, and I'll see you on the next video. Bye.
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