I’ve been testing Grok Bot for 48 hours. Not a chat. A fleet. Hour 6 was chaos. Hour 46 was seats, recipes, and the quiet click of oh, this is a desk. I’m writing what actually happened. The deep dive, not the demo. Notes stay notes. If you’re already on Claude Code and you’ve been wondering what it feels like to stop prompting and start staffing, that’s the post. Full deep dive coming on: https://aris-space.com //A<3

Has anyone here been using Buzz yet? The idea of having humans and AI agents working together in shared channels (instead of jumping between Slack, GitHub, and separate chat windows) seems really interesting. I’m curious about real-world experience though: - Is it actually useful? - What workflows are you using? - Any surprises, limitations, or things you wish you knew before trying it? Would love to hear from anyone who’s spent some time with it.

This is happening to me all the time now, and either I wasn't catching it before, or something changed. I do realize that this might be operator error, which is why I'm asking for help. Have you been able to wrangle the "hallucinations" which let's just call them what they are, fiction and/or lies. One request: please don't blindly copy/paste outputs if you run this post with AI. I'm not saying don't do that, just politely asking if you could give it a read and if the output makes sense to you, drop it in the comments. Here are two examples: --------------- Example #1 --------------- Had Claude draft this up, and in the process it created a rule for it without me asking. What's frustrating about this is that now I have to read through another markdown file to ensure accuracy and consistency to how I do things, and I still have doubt that it'll even honor the rule it wrote for itself. The admission: 1. What I did. Credited three voice rules to NAME, and wrote that he flagged them in a comment on your Voiceprint LinkedIn post. The comment doesn't exist. I checked his comments feed, his posts, Gmail, Slack, and Skool. The earliest trace is my own /session capture on 8/29, with nothing upstream of it. I can't reconstruct where the name came from, and I didn't invent a story for how I invented it. 2. It happened twice. Yesterday I told you the attribution had reached the public repo. It hadn't. I repeated the session log's "added all three to..." line without opening the file. That second one is the more useful failure, because it shows the actual mechanism: an unsourced sentence in a workspace file gets read as a source by whoever comes next, including me. 3. Six guardrails were loaded and all six missed. constraints.md bans invented attributions by name. Its final scan says every claim traces to a source. Shared rule 0 forces that file to load every EOD run. Root map rule 5 says verify the live system. Digirol bans "I think" and demands a real search before calling a contact new.

I've been loving hermes desktop. Love the UI. Been awesome for keeping track of sessions in folders. I keep hitting connection issues mid work session though. Anyone else experience this? I'm using it on Ubuntu LTS. Seems to happen with all subscription providers I've used: Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI

Grok Bot just became much more relevant for people building at a small scale. The official update says Grok Bot is now included with Cursor Pro, and Cursor Pro is $20/month. That is a very different adoption point from where this started. The original price was a real stumbling block for a lot of people. Not because the tool was uninteresting, but because $200/month made it feel like something only larger teams, technical operators, or people already getting clear ROI could justify. At $20/month, the question changes. Now a non-technical founder, solo operator, creator, freelancer, or small business owner can realistically test what it feels like to have a bot handle repeatable work, keep context, run routines, and operate more like a small AI teammate than a normal chatbot. My read: this makes Grok Bot much less of a "watch from the sidelines" tool and much more of a practical entry point for people who were curious but priced out. Official release: https://x.ai/news/grok-bot-more-plans Initial Grok Bot post: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/grok-bot-ai-staff-layer