How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)

The ultimate vision of Brock Bot is Incredibly simple, you should have a team. Of AI bots. That help you with your job and help you with your life. That is a very high bar. There's a lot of competition for that slot. We wanted to build something that wasn't just a great product for developers and engineers. We decided to create this very small team internally to go off into a cave for about a month with the sole objective of build an amazing knowledge work product that brings agents to the rest of the company.

It's been only three weeks since launch. I went to a Rock Block meetup. There were hundreds of people there, standing room only. It's very clear to me that you guys have built something very special. Once you start breaking out of this is AI chat with a set of connections, instead to this is a colleague with a computer. It just raises the ceiling of what you would Think to give to AI. You have this tweet, an AI that does one hundred percent of the job feels categorically different from one that gets you ninety percent there. What made me so excited to work on Crockbots is it was the first time For non-coding tasks that I felt like I could truly delegate work to AI, not have to think about it, and I would come back and it's done. What is it that you think you did that is so different? That made Grockbot so successful? It was two early decisions that at the time definitely did not feel obvious. But in hindsight, I think are critical to what makes Grof Bot work. Today my guest is Roman Ugarte.

I'm gonna keep this intro very short so we can get right into it. Roman was employee number fifteen at Cursor. He's had a growth for the last two years. Most recently he helped incubate Grockbot, a product that I am obsessed with. It has changed my life. I use it a hundred times a day for all kinds of things.

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