Grok Bot can plug into custom connectors now, so before adding any I wrote down what my 16 bots can touch today.
mostly read and draft. the Cloudflare connector can only read, deploys go through a separate token scoped to Pages.
my no row is one line: anything with a card.
what's on yours?
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tool companies pitch my sites all the time, asking to get listed in a guide.
my outreach bot drafts the same two part answer every time: an affiliate deal, plus a link back from their own guides page.
the second half matters more.
a vendor with no affiliate program can still say yes to a link. and when they ask which page, the bot gives 2 or 3 close matches with one line each on why it fits.
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Grok Bot started showing usage per bot and per source, and the first thing I thought of was my old setup.
I had 4 routines on one job. each one carried its own copy of the rules.
now it's one routine reading one playbook file. when a rule changes I edit that file instead of stacking a new routine on top, and one desk went from 3 runs a day to 2.
how many routines per bot are you at? my site bots are at 1 each.
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Boss on Mars 🛸 retweeted
Elon Musk just revealed a massive update on Grok 4.8, and SpaceXSI has completely rebuilt its reinforcement learning and inference infrastructure from scratch
The engineering team has abandoned JAX and SGLang, rewriting the entire RL and inference stack in C/C++
Here’s where Grok 4.8 stands:
• Pre-training is complete
• Major cleanup of supervised fine-tuning data
• Reinforcement learning now underway
• Evaluation scores are starting to climb
• Soft rollout to Grok Bot users planned for later this week
And Elon also gave another imp update about Grok 4.8:
“Grok 4.8 will bear no resemblance to 4.7 (thankfully)”
He also explained why the development took longer than expected:
“It is not yet incredible, but, this time, the foundations are built right, so I expect it to evolve to be something special”
This is a fundamental engineering overhaul, not just another model upgrade
SpaceXSI has rewritten the underlying infrastructure to build a much stronger foundation for Grok’s future development.
And the first Grok Bot users are expected to get their hands on it this week
We have dumped JAX/SGLang and rewritten the entire RL and inference stack from scratch in C/C++, which took some extra time.
Training (aka pre-training) is done. Lot of cleanup was needed on the SFT data to get that mostly right. Now, 4.8 is in RL and the evals are starting to climb. We will do a soft rollout to Bot users later this week and see how it goes.
Grok 4.8 will bear no resemblance to 4.7 (thankfully). It is not yet incredible, but, this time, the foundations are built right, so I expect it to evolve to be something special.
The best team out there 🚀
Just did a round table review with the Grok @Bot engineering team.
Fixes are being implemented overnight and you should notice a dramatic improvement by tomorrow. If not, reply to this post and we will address any remaining issues right away.
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when is a reminder bot actually worth running?
my real estate bot reminded me to pay yearly taxes. paying on time saved me 4% on about $4,000
that's about $160 from one reminder
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Boss on Mars 🛸 retweeted
BREAKING: Google’s parent Alphabet added another 3.85 million shares of SpaceX in Q3, its latest SEC filing shows.
Alphabet held 555 million shares worth $83.7 billion as of Sept. 30. SpaceX alone made up nearly 95% of its reported stock portfolio.
Google first put $900 million into SpaceX in January 2015. By the end of Q3, the stake was worth about 93 times Google’s original investment.
LLMs vs human minds
Context window vs working memory
memory.md vs long term memory
System prompt vs learned rules and habits
Hallucinations vs confidently misremembering
Training vs learning from experience
Prompt framing vs how a question is asked
Predicting what comes next: patterns in training data vs patterns in past experiences
Not the same mechanisms. But some surprisingly familiar failure modes.
After all, are we really that different?
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Boss on Mars 🛸 retweeted
We are living in SpaceX century
If they successfully catch booster **and** ship in a week, we are officially in a different era as a species
