Speaker 1I got good news for you. So there's a way to use Grokbot so that you can have your own design team, engineering team, content team, personal shopping team, business team. And by the end of this episode, we are going to show you how to use it so you can set it up today on your own. This could be one of the most important videos I've done in a long time because I believe that Grokbot is a new interface to the internet. Now, how can you actually set this up today? Like right now, how can you set it up? In today's episode, I have my friend Ross Mike. He's literally one of the best explainers of AI on the internet. He comes on, he shares exactly how he's using Grokbot and how you can copy it today. So I think this is a very important episode because there isn't a de facto masterclass for Grokbot using AI agents, how it plays in the whole ecosystem. And you're going to get it explained to you by literally one of the best explainers of AI on the internet, my friend Ross Mike. Stoked to have him. Let's get into it. What's up, Mickey? By the end of this podcast, what are people going to learn?
Speaker 2You're going to learn how to be a Grokbot maxi. Like it's the only personal agent that I've used, and not only as a personal agent, but as an orchestrator to do a lot of great work. It's by far, in my humble opinion, the best one. And you're going to learn how I maximize it and how you too can maximize it to the fullest.
Speaker 1Okay. So by the end of it, you're going to show clear examples and which categories and can you commit to basically, if people stick around to the end, that they'll be basically be able to copy what you're doing, implement it in their daily lives and good stuff will happen.
Speaker 2Yeah. And if I don't, if like, if I don't fulfill a promise, I will come to your house and make you hot cocoa. Let's do it. So I'm going to share my screen. There's some different ways that I use Grokbot and I'm just going to basically, I'm going to share my screen. I'm going to share my screen. I'm going to basically share like how I use it in engineering design content ideation. I know this is a startup ideas podcast. We're going to talk a little bit about business and finance. And the last one is the most interesting one is shopping. So I'm going to get straight into engineering. I'm just going to show you examples, right? So the one thing that I really like about Grokbot, and I will like maybe zoom in so you can see it. I have multiple bots for specific projects. Now what's interesting about Grokbot, and I think they're the ones who innovated on this instead of having multiple threads with like the same like agent, they sort of architected these like bots, which are basically contextual, have sort of their own set of skills and its own computer. And I find that like from an architectural perspective, I don't know if it's better doing it like the chat GBT way or the way Grokbot does it. But mentally for me, I love the bot system. And the reason why is I basically now have like each bot can textualize to a specific piece of work, right? So when I'm working on, let's say my Bezalel app, or I'm working on my Bible app, I know exactly what I'm working on. So like even mentally for me, this like contextual block really helps. But for engineering, the way I usually work is I have an engineering bot. And this bot has context to all my projects. And I'll usually shoot ideas like for example, like, like a random idea that I have no knowledge about that I'll show you guys in a second. So I have this bot called AI governance bit, Greg. And this is basically a friend of mine who works in the States told me that he does government contracting, and he's in AI governance, right? And as someone who's heavily in AI, the term AI and governance put together sounded interesting. So I asked my Grokbot, can you find some, like bids that exist, you know, that the government has for AI governance, and it started to work. And it did that. And what's also interesting is I asked my engineering bot to work on a simple AI governance app. And I did this at night, I woke up and I'm going to show you the app that it created for me. The app that it created, if I go to my GitHub repo, is this right here, Goshen Assure, AI governance compliance platform proprietary to Goshen Labs Inc. Now, do I have a clue how any of this works? Absolutely not. I have no idea. I haven't even run this. But the reason why I share this is when it comes to engineering, one of the best things that you could do with a Grokbot is literally just share with it your random ideas, whatever ideas you have, whatever information you hear, literally tell your Grokbot, like if you have an engineer bot, you can create one and tell it just make this, give me something that works, push to my GitHub, and I'll check it later. So now Greg, I have an abundance of ideas always being worked on. But those are just ideas. Let's talk about actual shipping products, shipping projects. I'll give you a very clear example. Pluto is one of my apps that I've been working on for some time. And we're doing a slight pivot. And the pivot is basically we want to be able for people to use Pluto. And then with the data that is in the Pluto app in their instance, for them to be able to fine tune like a base model like Quinn, right? This was just an idea. Now, I worked on this idea with a friend, we went back and forth. And basically, he used cloud code to create a PDF. And I downloaded that PDF. And I just gave it to my agent, I literally just said, review this, I didn't tell it build this. I didn't say do this. I just said, review it. Look what it says. He says, I read it, review the key decisions, risks and anything I've changed. And then it's a good direction. But I wouldn't approve the build plan unchanged. It gave me issues as to why there's some issues with the build plan. And they gave me some recommendations. And I said, okay, I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. I said, this thing is mandatory. And then it said, understood, I'll go with this core offering. And then I even shared with it a tweet as to someone asking for the type of product I wanted to build. It did that. It took the information I gave it. And then it gave me a better plan as to how we should go about building this, right? And then you know what's crazy? I literally sent this to my friend. And he gave me a response. You know what I did with the response? I copy pasted it. This was literally his response. Because you could see he uses my name here. And then I pasted it. And then it worked. And it's like, okay, 70% threshold, blah, blah, blah. And then he gave me a new plan. And this time, so this is where I actually stepped in and I reviewed the plan. And I'm like, oh, this is excellent. So guess what I told it, Greg? Build it out. Now, here's how I use Grokbot. Now, some people might call me a subscription maxi. To me personally, if you're watching this podcast, you should 100% take advantage of the subscription maxi. And if you're watching this podcast, you should 100% bought as a orchestrator. So I literally look the most basic prompts, you know, back in the day, we used to worry about prompt engineering. Now I just tell it how I feel, build out everything, use cloud code with ultra code, Opus five, five. If you need multiple sessions, go ahead slash goal. And then it went on for hours. You could see this as yesterday. And then look what I got. I got working PRs, working PRs, five out of five PRs. And now I have people testing the feature.
Speaker 1Right. So you could, I see like you're using Grokbot to orchestrate. You could theoretically use cloud code codex. Like why, especially you, like you're an engineer, like why, why use Grokbot?
Speaker 2The UX win from Grokbot is absolutely incredible. Like for me, like if I'm in like, I use T3 code to use cloud code cause I have multiple subscriptions and I use codex as well. But the one benefit that Grokbot has is just, and I'm telling you people, if you haven't tried it, you should try it. The UX feel, meaning like I can feel like I was, I was in my mom's house yesterday. You know, we're having dinner. Um, once a week I go to my mom's house to have dinner. Can I tell you, I was crushing PRs using state-of-the-art models from my phone with an app that actually feels good to use. Right. And this is the problem with like, if you use the chat GBT app, you get a bunch of threads, the threads get mixed up on one thread. I'm working on one project, the other third, but because I'm talking to bots, because I'm talking to bots and the bot is named and it's clear and has context, like it's more of a feeling and a vibe, but the UX gains I've gone from using Grokbot to orchestrate my cloud code sessions has been incredible. Right. So it's not even like a, like, Oh, I could just directly use a cloud code. Yes. But I am telling you, I am more productive. Going back and forth with Grokbot, especially when I'm managing multiple projects, because at the same time, while doing this, I'm working on a project called VP cloud and VP cloud is basically, uh, a Canadian sovereign cloud, meaning all the, like, you know, a Vercel, whatever, like deploy your AI models, whatever completely in on, on GPUs that live in Canada. Am I a new for a guy? Am I a cloud guy? Do I understand these things at a base level? Sure. Would I write code by hand to build this stuff? No. What do I do? I literally get Grokbot to spin a bunch of sessions, but not only that, uh, maybe I can show this, but not only did Grokbot build out the app, Grokbot is currently doing the negotiation with one of the GPU providers here in Canada. So I can maybe share the email a little bit. I don't know if I can show the entire thing. Let me find.
Speaker 1And while you're pulling that up, I think a brand new feature of Grokbot, I think it just launched, is the ability to call using Grokbot. Did you see that?
Speaker 2Yeah, which is incredible. Unfortunately, not available to us Canadians. I can't find. Maybe it used one of my other bots, but my VP Cloud project bot told one of my other bots to email the provider to see if I can get a discount. It even mentioned that I was a YouTuber and I have this many subs and I can say it's powered by this. I didn't tell it to do that. I didn't give it that idea. It literally just said, oh, the costs are a little too high compared to the American equivalents. Maybe we can get a discount. And this is the part of merging my engineering work with a personal agent that makes sense because with Cloud Code, I'm just getting straight engineering, right? With Grokbot, I can have similar access to the beast of an engineer that Cloud Code is, plus the personal side of a personal agent, like being able to send out emails, negotiate for me, request refunds, right? So the reason why I'm using Grokbot versus straight Cloud Code, Greg, is the UX and the fact that the personal agent, can handle business side as well. Multiple apps, my Bible app, Terminal. Do you know what Terminal is, Greg? You'll actually find this so funny. Terminal is a trading app I built because I like how Bloomberg looks, but I don't feel like spending $30,000 on a Bloomberg Terminal. So I built something snappy. Like this is pretty snappy. And not only that, it actually works. I can switch to live, connect my brokerage account, and lose money right now live. I could do that. But I built this using Rust, meaning it is super performant, super fast. Like you can see how snappy this is. I didn't write a single line of code. I didn't go to Cloud Code. I literally kept telling Grokbot exactly what to do, right? And even now, like there's this exchange. I'm not a big fan of promoting crypto, but there's this crypto exchange that has a really great way of being able to have synthetic stocks. So not the actual stock, but a token that mirrors the stock and their projects open source and all that stuff. So you know what I did? I asked my Grokbot. I'm like, oh, look at this. Yeah, SideQuest. How would it look like to build our own crypto and stock server node? I want to build a synthetic stock. I want to build synthetic stocks for the entire market. What would that look like? Spin up a new bot that I can chat with. And then it set up a new bot called Exchange. And it told me legalities, this, this, that, and that. And I'm saying, look what I said. I'm not asking you to be realistic, nor am I asking you to swap what we built for Hyperliquid. I want us to build something novel. I want us to build an engine, whatever it is. So I'm literally just talking to it the way I would talk to another person. No fancy prompt, trick, or anything like that. And then it came up with a plan. Now, these artifacts are probably one of my favorite feature because visually it's easy for me to just go through this and understand what it's talking about. I breezed through it. I liked it. I was like, okay, fire. You see that prompt that you're doing, Greg? Fire. Spin up the VPS clock. So I have a VPS connected to my network. So I said, spin up the VPS. I should have said in the VPS, but it understood me. Cloud code, ultra code, Opus 5.5, with tons of sub-ages to get this done. Now, six years ago, is this an, like, sorry, six months ago, would this be an acceptable prompt? Absolutely. - You'd get nowhere. - Absolutely not. Now, like, it goes on building, building, and then now I'm trying to figure out what, like, hosting provider I can deploy this on, right? Like, so in terms of engineering, like the best workflow I would share is, I don't think GrokBot alone is great for engineering. So the way I would look at it is I'm using GrokBot and I'm giving GrokBot access to cloud code. And the reason why I'm picking cloud code over Codex is first and foremost, Opus 5.5 is the better model. This could change if OpenAI drops a better model. We'll probably flip. But right now, the subsidies are just like, like you're getting $200 subscription, you're getting like $8,000 worth of API credits, right? So if $200 doesn't hurt the bank, it is absolutely irresponsible to not take advantage of this subsidy while it lasts. Now, someone might be asking, how am I using, how have I connected GrokBot to cloud code? There's two easy ways to do it. There's two ways to do it. The easy way and the way I've done it. The easy way is every bot has a computer, right? So you can literally tell it, hey, log into cloud code on your computer and it can access it via that. I have a network of machines that I've connected via a tail scale. I use T3 code. And because T3 code is already set up, every time I tell GrokBot to use cloud code, it just spins up a T3 code instance. Now, here's the thing. Someone might be like, oh, but you didn't explain how to set up the T3 code thing. Or what if I just want to use cloud code? I completely understand that. Ask your agent, because that's what I did. I'm not a networking guy. Greg, I don't know, maybe I can show it right here. You can see, I have a rig here with a bunch of computers. My laptop's plugged as I can show. All that's connected. I have multiple agents working. How does the networking work? How-- I'm not a networking guy. But the models have gone so good, if you can think it and it's possible it's been done, just ask the model how. And you will literally get it done. So that's kind of how I've been using it for engineering. Segmenting each project into its own bot, if it's serious enough. Going back and forth. Getting my GrokBot to spin up cloud code sessions. Now, can you go directly to cloud code? Yes. Why am I using GrokBot? I love the UX and the feeling. And I feel super productive. And my phone actually feels useful. And even without-- you can call the bot directly. So I'll be driving. I'll put the bot on speaker. And I can talk with it, and it can get work done. And before, it was like a gimmick. But now, this is genuinely something useful to me. So this is what I've been doing with the engineering side. Let me know, Greg, if I missed anything or any questions arise.
Speaker 1So it's easy to fall into the trap of having too many bots. Yes. You showed an example of spin up a bot for-- Exchange. Exchange. Are you saying the most optimal way to use GrokBot is basically to just spin up bots per project and-- because I've seen other people have per employee, per jobs to be done. It's kind of a spectrum, right?
Speaker 2What's your-- Yeah. The way I would think about it is context is my decider, right? So if, for example, if you notice I have an engineer bot, but then I have-- So I have bots for separate projects. Now, the reason why I have an engineer bot is some things, some ideas. For example, let me see if I can pull this up here. I have this widget right here, or this extension called Still. And it basically just takes screenshots. This was two prompts with my GrokBot. This does not deserve its own bot. So I have a general engineering bot for random ideas. But for anything that I deem serious or I want to launch to people, or I want to continue to working on-- to work on, that will get its own bot. But guess what happens once something is useless? I right click, and I delete. So I am not afraid to delete bots that have not served their purpose. For example, there's just like Toronto Curriculum Bill, whatever, whatever, this is over, delete, done, right? So you can get into bot fatigue where you have 15 different bots for 15 different things. I think-- when I want to divide my mind into different groups because something requires my attention, that's when it becomes like a bot. So Pluto is an important project. I am taking it seriously, deserves its own bot. The Bible app, I'm really having fun with this, deserves its own bot. Bezalel, believe it or not, Greg, I'm a $200 MRR, deserves its own bot. Terminal will probably get deleted in two days. I'll be honest with you. Same with Exchange, right? So I'm cycling through these different bots on the regular. But there are some permanent ones I have. For example, IT, which I don't think I'll open, because it'll leak some IP addresses, is like manages my fleet. ML basically handles all my local model stuff, right? Downloading models, fine-tuning models, and all that stuff. And I can get into that as well, how I've been fine-tuning models using GrokBot, right? My content stuff, I'm usually like I'm content all the time, content now. So those bots only. So I would say as long as there's a huge amount of context regarding a certain text, maybe that dictates its own bot. But the moment something's useless, delete it, because that's what I do.
Speaker 1And OK, well, actually, we'll get into it later. Before we move on to-- I was going to ask a question, but we'll get into it on the content, once we get into content. I will ask, before we move on, around-- just because people are going to say, OK, great. This guy's shipping a bunch of projects, but I haven't seen security anywhere. How do I know? How do I know that these projects are secure?
Speaker 2What's your response to that? The I and the reason why I didn't share this is I have access to an obliterated model, which is basically a model where the guardrails are removed. So it's a really, really bad model. It could be a really, really bad model, but a lot of companies use it to defend themselves, right? Like the open codes, the railways. I don't think they might have had access to mythos or daybreak, but a lot of companies are using obliterated models. So I can't really show that part here because, you know, science stuff, but I do run an obliterated model against all my, I guess, all my apps. But in terms of how would you handle like security is I would get whatever best model you have access to, and then I would run slash goal, and then I would say do security checks. Now, the annoying part is both quad and codex might block you at times. They might say like, oh. So like because they think you're trying to trick them. And the way you would handle that is you would spit up a new thread and reword your prompt differently. It is a bit of a headache, but you owe it to people that are going to use your app if payments are involved, if sensitive user information is involved. Now, there are some apps where security doesn't really matter. For example, my Bible app is a free app. There's no login. Everything is synced. Like the reason why I made it is because I wanted to have no ads and I wanted to be super, super fast. Right. So there's nothing really to hack there. Right. But for apps that are really, really serious, like, for example, like Pluto is a pretty serious app. I have an obliterated model running in the background, always doing loops. I can also tell Grokbot to do security review for me. Like, listen, anything you want done, you can ask Grokbot to do for you. But like, I don't do that personally because I have access to an obliterated model. Yeah. I hope that sort of answers the question.
Speaker 1Perfect. Yeah. All right. Let's move on. Let's move on to how else you're using Grokbot.
Speaker 2So number two is design. And design is going to be pretty short. I use a tool called Paper. Paper is like Figma. I know the designer people might roast me for this. I apologize. Listen, I don't know what any of these different tools in terms of design things do. But what I love about Paper is the MCP is amazing. So Paper has this MCP. You connect it to your agent. How do I connect it to my agent, Mike? Ask your agent. I have Paper installed. Connect to the MCP. That's simple. And the workflow that I have, and I did a whole video on this, is I actually, I'll show you a live example. I have my Twitter is maybe we can get lucky. My Twitter is filled with people who are good at design. So like, for example, this is like, you know, some beautiful design inspo. Okay. None of the designers like, okay, this is, oh, Quinn's about to drop something beautifully designed. So I have like a. I have a lot of design-esque like Twitter follow, like people that I follow. And then I also use something like Mobbin. It's just a resource, a reference of all beautifully designed websites. So literally what I will do is I will like take a screenshot of this right here. And then I will tell my agent, hey, like, I really like this. Can you build this on paper? And an example I can give you is I'm building a Shopify store for my brother's clothing. Brand. And let me see. Yeah. So he gave me some of his designs and I said, oh, these are the designs. I'm like, can you create a clean site and design and the design of the Pluto design system? Display my brother's clothing. Right. So pretty terrible prompt again. And it asked me a bunch of questions, what mood I was looking for. And he used Framer at first because I had Framer connected. But I didn't want it to use Framer. I wanted to use Shopify. So after a couple back and forths. It sent me a design and this is what it sent me on on paper. So I have this created. And just to show you that I'm not a poser AI designer, I really use paper a lot. So like I'll copy like a website that I really like and I'll tell my bot create a design system using this site as reference. Right. So I'm not blatantly copying someone's site. I'm asking my agent to build a design system and then I'll tweak the design system. And for people who don't know. The design system is it's basically a guidebook that a designer creates for developers. In this case, we're creating it for our agents. Right. So we're telling the agent this is the font it needs to use. These are the colors. This is the typography. These are the different sizes we allow. This is the spacing, the shape. This is how rounded we want the squares. This is how big the buttons are. The cards are. This is actually a site. I think one of Riley's sites that I literally I loved so much that I asked it to create a design system. And then throughout like my different projects. I'll ask. I'll ask my bot to reference. Right. So in this case, I wanted a gothic look like a Christian gothic look. And it created that. Let me go to this tab right here. Where was my paper? Yeah. It created that. And then guess what I told it, Greg. After that, I told it to build the front end. I asked it, how can I have this be a front end on Shopify? Because I didn't even know if you can customize front ends on Shopify. I haven't used Shopify in a very long time. While it was doing that, by the way, reminded me of Greg's pod. So I connected my Shopify account. And in literally a few minutes, went back and forth with the design. And if I open this right here. Has it built out?
Speaker 1Are Shopify templates dead?
Speaker 2I mean, like, because, yeah, I remember a time I had a friend who was making a lot of money customizing them. I basically built it out on paper. Well, I don't even feel comfortable saying I built it out. My agent built it out on paper. And I told it to, I connected to my Shopify account. And it redesigned it, right? So there's literally, like, in terms of building software, web, mobile, desktop, you can go far. You could go absolutely far.
Speaker 1I want to say one quick point on the fact that you used, like, paper or you can use Figma or whatever you want to use. The mistake a lot of people are making right now is they're going straight to code. So they're prompting Grokbot or whatever to be like, build this thing. And then once it's in code, there's just a bunch of slop that's in there that, like, from a design perspective, you can kind of, you know, people call it AI smell. You can kind of feel it. What you should do is take a second before pushing something to code to actually make sure that the design. System is high quality, that it is going to resonate with your ICP, that you don't have some random features in here that you don't want. And that's why, for a long time, that was actually like a headache. But now with paper MCP, I mean, it's not like you are affiliated with paper. I'm not affiliated with paper. You're not affiliated with Grokbot. I'm not affiliated with Grokbot. We're just using these tools because they're helpful in creating stuff, right?
Speaker 2100%. And the thing is, I'm genuinely a user of all these tools. And to your point, you never want to go directly to output, right? You want to, like, I'm still a big believer in human in the loop when it makes sense. And in terms of design, my approval is 100% necessary. In terms of functionality, how things are working, my approval is definitely necessary. So me being part of that feedback loop actually allows the AI to work more, right? If I just told the AI agent, yeah, design the site on Shopify, and it gave me some slop, the time I'm going to waste going back and forth. It's unnecessary versus I take the extra step. I have a paper account set up. I'm using paper at papers MCP with my agent. It designs it. And here's another cool feedback tool that I just recently discovered. I can click comment on paper. I can leave a comment, right? And then I could tell my agent address the comments. So I could look at this. I might not even be a designer. I'd be like, I don't really like how this logo looks, or I don't like this font, or the spacing here. It's weird, or like this shouldn't say Toronto, Ontario. Like I can tweak that out of these comments and just tell my agent address that. That is a better feedback mechanism versus me having a deployed site and then saying, well, I don't like this. I don't like this. And that has to rebuild everything or like, you know, rewrite code and stuff like that, where I'd rather lock in the design first, be happy with it, then have it generate code. Another example I can share. Let me just pull this up. So one of my apps, Bezalel, just a little cool, fun animation, nothing seriously, trying to explain what the app does. I got AI to build this. Now, what's interesting is the way I got it to build this is I found someone who posted a screenshot of something similar, right? And it was far back. I told AI to work on it, but I don't think it ever finished it. So I asked it, is Bezalel's UI changes made? And it says it's checking. It says the PR was. It's merged. The UI work is merged. And then I asked it, like, don't confuse it. This is the anim. Watch the prompt. The animation thingy. I forgot how it looked. I just know it had animations. And then it says, oh, that was the declarative dragging demo. So I saw this demo of, like, things being dragged around and how snappy things were. And I saw this and I was like, oh, this is nice. Like, I really like this. So I even forgot that I gave it to. So I said animation thingy. And remember, and then it said, want me to prototype the homepage hero? in PR. And I've told it to use Cloud Code so much that now it knows. It's just spinning up a Cloud Code session for Dragology, Hero Prototype, and Bezalel. It worked on it. And then it looked good. But then one thing I realized is it used icons. And I was like, no, use the logos, right? These companies have logos. I said, instead of icons to the left of the text, can you have logos? It worked on it. And the PR was ready. I merged it. And this is the site right now, right?
Speaker 1Fire, by the way.
Speaker 2Thank you. Thank you. And all of this was designed with paper. I'll even share the same inspiration I found. This is the inspiration I found, family.co. Love the site. Love how cute and lovely it is.
Speaker 1Benji Taylor. Shout out Benji Taylor.
Speaker 2Legend, right? I'm a big fan of his work. So I got it to design system. I tweaked a couple of things. And look how nice and playful this site is. I'm not a designer. I use Grokbot and paper and Cloud Code to build all this, right? So I think. I think having the right tools and giving your agent the right feedback makes it more tasteful versus then just producing purple gradient slop, if that makes sense.
Speaker 1Cool. Yeah. Let's keep going.
Speaker 2Yeah. So that was design. Content ideation. Oh, this is going to be my favorite. So I have a YouTube bot. And the way I use my YouTube bot is every. I think it's 8, it's 9 a.m. and then like 5 p.m. It will scour through Twitter. And the reason why it scours through Twitter is Grokbot basically gives you. I don't want to say unlimited, but it feels like unlimited access to the XAPI. So you can pull information from X however you want. And because the space that me and Greg are in is very active on X, and sometimes it's hard to keep up, I basically tell it, always share with me three topics that you think I would find interesting based on the type of content I create. And share with me tweets that I can make videos from. So this is today's. Let's look at it. It says Claude got bank access. Then Pobliano blew it up on Anthropic. So this is their, I think, their finance launch. Yeah, this is something I could talk about, right? This is about Claude. It's about finance. I find these two things interesting. And then it even gives me title idea. Claude just asked for your bank login. That's actually a pretty good title. And then shares with me the type of resources I can use. And then it gives me the type of resources I can use. And then it gives me the type of resources I can add. And then second is Google ships agents that keep coding after you close the laptop. Anti-gravity remote agents level, right? So this is something I could talk about as well. Claude Code was sending your email address to the web. So apparently there's some hacker news, insider info. Claude Code is doing something sneaky. This is probably a video that someone is recording right now as we speak. So this is happening twice a day, every single day. The politics stuff happened in the States, right? Data centers are a big thing. It says data centers lost 46 or 47 votes. It knows that this is like, I'm not a politics channel, but this is something that I probably would talk about, right? So every single day, nine to five, I am getting these ideas fed to me from Twitter with resources and title suggestions. Now, do I take these every single time? No, but am I keeping up to date with what's going on? And do I basically have a plethora of ideas? 100% yes, right? So this is, this is absolutely one of my favorite bots, especially when it comes to the content creation one is just ideation. I don't usually use AI to script because I find that people, you know, people prefer people or maybe you can help it like organize your thoughts and stuff like that. But in terms of finding you ideas, there should be no reason why, especially if your community lives on X, it's one of the best things. Another thing I can share is my editor bot. Now I don't use this just yet, meaning like no videos have went live, but man, is it a good way to sort of explore the different styles I want? And then I give it to my editor because I don't know editor language, Greg, you know, people say lots, this color grading, text, inter font trends. I don't know what none of that means. So what I literally will do in my very like broken editor language, English, I will tell it. I want this, this feels a little too yellow, whatever. And guess what I do? I sent it to my editor and my editor, very, very talented, amazing. We'll follow those instructions. We'll give suggestions. So like we're at a point where like, you know, if I didn't, like if I was starting ground zero, I would, I would use this. I would use AI to at least cut clips from your ad texts for me. Right. So between like ideating with different styles, using Grog bot and also like AI, it is a huge part of my content, uh, ideation and pipeline.
Speaker 1I'll let you in on a little secret. I, I've been experimenting with using Opus five, five to edit my short form. And some of those videos have gotten hundreds of thousands of views.
Speaker 2Yeah. We're there. We're there. I believe in, I'm going to start picking up short form. I've been slacking and yeah, like AI is going to be a big part of that, especially with like, I'm assuming probably had animations and stuff like that.
Speaker 1I mean, there's no, I'm going to do, you know, if people want me to do, you know, episodes on this, I'm happy to do it. But basically my workflow was literally like, you know, I'm in the shower. I have an idea in the shower. I, you know, get back to my desk. I take my phone, I press record and I'm like, let me tell you about some topic. Right. And Hey, record, stop, uh, feed it to Claude code, you know, give it, you know, some, uh, framework for thinking about how to edit videos and what makes a good video. Um, and basically posted it. Um, and I, you know, I just wanted to see like, if we were there yet and we're totally there, um, I could see a world where Grokbot does a better job at managing that relationship.
Speaker 2No, a hundred percent. And that's what I use Grokbot for. Ultimately Grokbot is an orchestrator for me. It orchestrates multiple different things. It's not solely doing the thing for me in some, in most cases, it's orchestrating the thing. For example, to your point on this video, I've been working on like animations and like animated stuff. And like, I remember a time where this costed a pretty hefty penny, right? Like, like this costs money. And I think to your point, the expensive thing right now is the framework is the knowledge in certain domain. It's the understanding of how it should be followed and what good editing looks like. And like how the animations should bounce in nicely and stuff like that. But yeah, this, this is possible. Like I can add a narration to this or I can be super AI pill, give 11, give an 11 glass key and it could do that for me. So yeah, content has, um, definitely changed for me in terms of like how I use AI with it. Um, and this is how Grokbot is. Should I jump into business or finance? Let's do it. So one important bot that I have, and some people might call me weird for this, but I have, um, where is it? I have an advisor bot and hopefully it doesn't show any numbers here. Yes. So my advisor bot basically stops me from making bad decisions. So I have, what do they call this? Um, like, you know, like the syndrome where you see some shiny object syndrome. I have a bad case of shiny object syndrome. I think Greg knows this where like one day I'll be all about, you know, the space that we're in. And I don't know why the next day I have an urge to start a trucking company or I have this urge to be a real estate mogul. Like it's, it's very random. Or like, I don't know, like it's just the most random thing. And so I'll give my advisor bot like, Oh, I'll see this. And I was like, Oh, what do you think of this? Honestly, I wouldn't buy this right now. It doesn't fit where you are this year. It's an investment building, not a house you're saving for. And it won't, it wouldn't pull cash. It would pull cash away from your other goals, right? It's telling me how, you know, bad it is to buy real estate in Canada. It's saying the rents are probably logged. It even mentioned a red flag, which I noticed the seller apparently said unrepresented buyers only, which is like super sus. Like why can't I have representation? Um, and it even says here, the boiler and the furnace are from 2009. So there are about 17 years old budget for replacing them in the next few years. So it's basically telling me this is a bad idea, right? And I need something like this to tell me that this is a bad idea. And the reason why this bought, is effective is because under the finance tab, I have business finance, personal finance, business investor, personal investor. And these bots basically have full access to my finances. The way I do it is there's this plugin. A lot of people don't know this. If you search finance and you click on it, I won't click on it because it's from my bank accounts. It usually just uses plaid. So you can connect your accounts via plaid, give it full access to this, your bots, look at your transactions, and it will literally tell you you can't afford this, or this goes against your goals, or you told me you wanted to save for this, or you wanted to do this, right? So for someone like me, who one day wants to own a trucking company, the next day wants to own a storage unit company, and the next day wants to start an AI lab, like this is a great bot for me. Between my finances bot and my advisor bot, incredible. Um, the, I do have like a, I'm trying to get it to government contracting. I'm probably not, again, This is probably one of my shiny object syndromes kicking in Greg but I have a couple bots that basically scan for contracts that the government of Canada has available and it's telling me oh and it knows about me right it has access to my business site it has access to my finance so saying oh yeah this makes sense for you this doesn't make sense for you you might need to hire for this right so like once you've given it enough context through the connections and maybe giving it some data like these are actually great like tools to bounce ideas off of I would scroll up but the advisor bot pulls numbers on some of the chats there are some things where it literally tells me it's like you need to relax and focus on the main thing which is like absolutely great advice that I hear from humans but for some reason when I hear a bot it hits a little harder so this has been a big win for me in terms of business and finance and for me this hits incredibly well I've been doing this for a long time and I've been doing this for a long time because my business of finance is tied with engineering and design right so I'm not just vibe building for the sake of vibes some of these are actually products that people have paid me to build some of these are products that maybe I want to raise money for maybe I want to sell to people right so because these things are tied going back to your original question Greg this is why I use Grofbot because with Claude Cole when I spin up a new session it has no idea that this is where my business is at this is how much money the business is making this is the type of customers we have but Grofbot will make engineering decisions worth the information it has on this side of the market and this is what makes it to me absolutely incredible right like I asked it to build me a site one time for for a family friend and it was like oh you had a design system in paper that you used for another family member one time do you want to use this one as well absolutely incredible because I didn't want to do that and I didn't have to tell that right so the more I'm using it the more it's getting to know me like the more productive it's starting to become for me when it comes to all these parts of my life because everything is related even my content and my engineering is related right the reason why I have to build apps that people use is so I can make content about building apps that people use right if I stop doing that then my content goes stale right so all of this is feeding into each other and the only way I can have it under one surface is Grofbot dude if
Speaker 1you if you're listening to this and you ship ideas and you don't use Grofbot and again what's wrong with you I'm
Speaker 2not saying use Grofbot to build it use Grofbot to orchestrate it so knows what's going on that context is super super valuable and finally I'll just talk about shopping this is um I am a a fiend for compute because uh some people want to take my compute away so I've been trying to find uh places to buy uh compute and it will like scour through eBay where it will look for listings where people are selling uh GPUs where the boxes are sealed right so I'm getting like I'm getting listings every single day and I'll actually share the crazy story I have a PS5 Pro that I bought recently because I want to play GTA 6 um and you know who bought my PS5 Pro and negotiated for me and checked that it was viable uh Greg it was my Grofbot. Grofbot emailed the person who listed it on eBay found out that it was a store in Ontario two hours away gave me the number gave me the script to talk to the person obviously I didn't use the script called the person confirmed I gave it access it bought for me and now I have a PS5 ready to play GTA 6 when it comes out um another thing that I've been using it for super random um I'm starting to experience a little sciatica pain and I need to choose and I asked it um I actually asked it to find me a list of shoes and then it did and then I asked it to email my wife because she's my designer and stylist and I'm not allowed to pick the pieces of clothing I wear because apparently I have no sense of color and taste when it comes to clothing and she picked a couple and it sent me the list that she's okay with right so like these just mundane things like I want to buy new shoes that are good for my sciatica pain I don't want to have to go on the side and then click here and click that so I'm going to buy new shoes that are good for my sciatica pain so to me going even beyond everything else Grokbot is my interface to the internet I don't even go on pages as much anymore I'll tell Grokbot to do it for me unless like I visibly need to be there like something like Twitter so this is yeah this is pretty much a rundown of how I spend probably the most time on on any given app um being productive building stuff in and doing stuff Greg dude this has been
Speaker 1insane I'm not gonna lie I'm not gonna lie I'm not gonna lie I know what I'm doing today uh I'm caught I'm I'm literally just screenshotting or I'm sending this video to my Grokbot and being like I want that's the awesome part that you can give the video to your Grokbot it'll pull the transcription and it'll do this stuff for you right it's incredible so thank you so much for coming on sharing the sauce I'll include links where you can follow as he's not on the internet Ross Mike uh where you can follow him you definitely should um anything you want to leave people
Speaker 2with yeah um one last thing I'll say is I I please think big like please just like now is like the time to actually try stuff you know before two three years before you heard the motivational speeches you gotta be the screw all that like it's actually possible now like I we did a video not too long ago talking about uh audio like and hardware Greg I'm doing it look at look at like mind you forget the cream cheese sandwich but I'm doing it like there's a raspberry pi there's speakers there I am not a hardware guy right but like I'm actually building something that works and I I don't know what I'm doing but I'm literally going back and forth with AI asking how do I do this how do I connect this oh I need this chip I need this memory card I need this peripheral and I'm putting it together and not only am I having the time of my life but like I now have the ability to like the ideas that you want to use to be stuck here I have no excuse to bring them out now so my message to everyone is just just try man like like just just actually just ask the agent and just try like this is by far I know there's a lot of doomerism but the fact that you have intelligence for 200 a month is absolutely incredible you owe it to yourself and your generations that's all I ask and it's
Speaker 1easy to fall for the doomerism because there's so much negativity on the internet yeah uh and I think the important thing is just a part of it is sort of like a mental battle of being like you know what i believe when mickey says that this is the time and he shows me that you know all the things i knew i i i believe that i could create something that people could want and even though people uh say sass is dead or software is dead or this person just got lucky you know for for hitting it big on this app and it can never be me you know you gotta it's like that image of the horse with blinders on running a race you gotta just put the blinders on and and get get to work i mean listen
Speaker 2at the end of the day whatever you say will be true right there was a quite a bit of time like i mean greg you remember when you first had me on the chat i had like 8k subs right like i was working a corporate job like i was like it was just stuff was pretty tight but i just i had this very delusional belief that like yeah i'm going to make something happen and i didn't even think it was youtube i was really doing youtube for fun and i remember when greg dm'd me i thought i was being scammed i thought it was like a bot like i didn't respond right away if you look at the time difference because i had to confirm whether it was him or not or whether i was being fished so like like like and that was then and like this is now and it's like yes there's a lot of craziness happening but like i think if you focus on you and your house and you do what's best for you and yours and you implement the stuff that's available and you just try because even if it doesn't work out you at least try and for that you're a legend so please try at least before the subsidies end i'll catch
Speaker 1you next time my man have a good
Speaker 2one everybody thank you so much great for having me on
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