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    Elon Musk Retweets Alex Finn's Grok Bot Endorsement

    Investor Gavin Baker also reports major productivity gains using the agent.

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    Alex Finn posted that after a week of nonstop use Grok Bot is the best AI agent for its simplicity and integrated cloud computer. Elon Musk retweeted the post. Gavin Baker replied that the app marks another Claude Code moment and estimated his own AI usage rose sharply. He built a podcast summarizer inside it in about 15 seconds. Andrew Wilkinson added that the speed and responsiveness led him to shut down his other agents. Mckay Wrigley noted the cloud computer direction is correct but questioned the iMessage-style interface for professional work.

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    @AlexFinnAfter using Grok Bot nonstop for the past week I'm going to say it: it's the best AI agent out there right now Dead simple and just works It eliminates the 10,000 decisions, configs, and fixes that scare people off The integrated cloud computer unlock so many use cases too: 1. Invited the cloud computer to my community. It opened it up and now monitors the community 24/7. Answering questions and DMs 2. Uses the X plugin to monitor all the AI companies X accounts every 15 minutes around the clock. Looking for updates and big news, alerting me the moment it happens 3. Clicks around testing the 2 apps I'm building around the clock. Looking for bugs, thinking of new features, then writing the PRs and waiting for my review 4. My Grok Bot checks my social media channels around the clock. Moment I post anything, it repurposes the content based on other content I've posted, making writing my newsletter much easier 5. The integrated Grok images are really nice. So I can tell it to go to my YT on its cloud computer and make similar thumbnails for my new videos 6. Checks data in post hog on my product retention, gives me a list of at risk subscribers, prepares emails and reachout, then asks me for the OK Can the other AI agents out there do this? Yes. There's literally nothing Grok Bot can do that the others can't. But here's the thing, the user experience is designed so beautifully that it unhobbles all of these use cases and make them so much more pleasant to execute on Grok Bot is a must try
    @elonmuskRT @AlexFinn: After using Grok Bot nonstop for the past week I'm going to say it: it's the best AI agent out there right now Dead simple a…
    @GavinSBakerI think @bot is another “Claude Code” moment for AI. I would estimate my personal AI usage is up something like 100x. And for everyone who reached out about how to build a “podcast summarizer” it took me about 15 seconds in Grok Bot and is better than what I had before.
    @mckaywrigleymy problem with products like grok bot is that they don’t take themselves seriously enough as work tools. yes, “agent in the cloud with a computer” is the obviously correct direction. but the imessage interface pattern that *everyone* is doing rn is the wrong direction imo. if spacex/cursor wants a genuine claude code moment, they need to… - keep the good parts of what they have in grok bot - adapt it to be something enterprises will use - AND make grok a great model. i think people forget that a big part of the claude code moment was the model itself and not just the terminal harness. i think grok 4.7 will tell us a lot here. i know you’ve been big on the pareto dominant point, but i’ll observe that anytime people tout something as pareto dominant, it basically means nothing (example: people did this with gemini for like a year). usage is everything. but i do think with the addition of the cursor team that spacex does now has all the pieces to make it happen. it’s great to have a legit 3rd contender.
    @awilkinson@GavinSBaker @bot 100% - I think like 80% of it is the fact that it is so fast and responsive compared to using a Claude or Codex remote session. It is so freaking fast and awesome. I shut down my OpenClaw and Hermes agents almost immediately when I started using it
    @HarryStebbings@GavinSBaker @bot Best thing you use it for my man?

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    @AlexFinnAfter using Grok Bot nonstop for the past week I'm going to say it: it's the best AI agent out there right now Dead simple and just works It eliminates the 10,000 decisions, configs, and fixes that scare people off The integrated cloud computer unlock so many use cases too: 1. Invited the cloud computer to my community. It opened it up and now monitors the community 24/7. Answering questions and DMs 2. Uses the X plugin to monitor all the AI companies X accounts every 15 minutes around the clock. Looking for updates and big news, alerting me the moment it happens 3. Clicks around testing the 2 apps I'm building around the clock. Looking for bugs, thinking of new features, then writing the PRs and waiting for my review 4. My Grok Bot checks my social media channels around the clock. Moment I post anything, it repurposes the content based on other content I've posted, making writing my newsletter much easier 5. The integrated Grok images are really nice. So I can tell it to go to my YT on its cloud computer and make similar thumbnails for my new videos 6. Checks data in post hog on my product retention, gives me a list of at risk subscribers, prepares emails and reachout, then asks me for the OK Can the other AI agents out there do this? Yes. There's literally nothing Grok Bot can do that the others can't. But here's the thing, the user experience is designed so beautifully that it unhobbles all of these use cases and make them so much more pleasant to execute on Grok Bot is a must try
    @elonmuskRT @AlexFinn: After using Grok Bot nonstop for the past week I'm going to say it: it's the best AI agent out there right now Dead simple a…
    @GavinSBakerI think @bot is another “Claude Code” moment for AI. I would estimate my personal AI usage is up something like 100x. And for everyone who reached out about how to build a “podcast summarizer” it took me about 15 seconds in Grok Bot and is better than what I had before.
    @mckaywrigleymy problem with products like grok bot is that they don’t take themselves seriously enough as work tools. yes, “agent in the cloud with a computer” is the obviously correct direction. but the imessage interface pattern that *everyone* is doing rn is the wrong direction imo. if spacex/cursor wants a genuine claude code moment, they need to… - keep the good parts of what they have in grok bot - adapt it to be something enterprises will use - AND make grok a great model. i think people forget that a big part of the claude code moment was the model itself and not just the terminal harness. i think grok 4.7 will tell us a lot here. i know you’ve been big on the pareto dominant point, but i’ll observe that anytime people tout something as pareto dominant, it basically means nothing (example: people did this with gemini for like a year). usage is everything. but i do think with the addition of the cursor team that spacex does now has all the pieces to make it happen. it’s great to have a legit 3rd contender.
    @awilkinson@GavinSBaker @bot 100% - I think like 80% of it is the fact that it is so fast and responsive compared to using a Claude or Codex remote session. It is so freaking fast and awesome. I shut down my OpenClaw and Hermes agents almost immediately when I started using it
    @HarryStebbings@GavinSBaker @bot Best thing you use it for my man?