Have been trying Grok @bot for the past couple days I have mixed...
Have been trying Grok @bot for the past couple days
I have mixed feelings about it, I am not entirely sure what work to get done with it.
Things like working on features, bug fixes, I don't feel comfortable doing with it since it doesn't give me enough visbility over what its doing.
I have same problem with using any cloud agent for that matter, I have tried Codex Cloud, Cursor Cloud Agents and now Grok bot. I still end up resorting to just running the agents on my mac and leaving it on forever.
I have gotten some work done with @bot with ease that I personally find very repetitive, like shortlisting applicant resumes, handling emails, managing issues on linear, and posting posts on time on linkdin
But, if I wasn't already a cursor user and I just wanted to use Grok @bot would a $60 a month subscription be justified? I'm honestly not sure for myself for now.
I am sure @poteto and team are working hard to make it even more useful and cater even more usecases but for now the tradeoff of the agent running in a blackbox where I have limited observability over, is not something that sits comfortably with me, atleast not for things that actually are sensitive to my day to day work.
I'll still continue trying cool things with it and see if I can stumble across awesome usecases with it.
Based on a public example shared by @void_exception on X.
Nate Herk published “A Week of Grok Bot Lessons in 10 Mins” on X: nine hacks for turning a default Bot into a team. Elon quote-tweeted it the same morning and asked people what Bots they run.
Blake accepted a public challenge, skipped OpenClaw, and in two nights: linked email, had a Bot build a 12-page household budget PowerPoint, stood up a team for his wife’s business, and started daily Tesla news recaps.
On 19 Aug 2026 Rahul (@sairahul1) published an X article: “How To Build a One-Person Company Using Grok Bot.” The open is the solo-founder load — find the leads, write the outreach, make the images, answer the replies, count the week — and a Bot system that takes those lanes.