There are reports that some power users are switching from Claude to SpaceXAI’s $300 SuperGrok Heavy tier. They cite slowdowns in models like Fable 5 and Sonnet 5 amid Anthropic’s usage boost ending August 19. They praise Grok 4.6 for its balance of intelligence and lower per-task costs on agentic tasks. Grok Bot adds always-on agents for overnight research and app handling. Some stick with Claude for coding but there are some cancellations signaling a shift among heavy users.
xAI & Grok co-founder, Jimmy Ba says 90% of XAI engineers are using AI agent loops, which helps them ship 5x faster. Every xAI engineer is running 10-20 GrokBot agents to automate their routines.
He reveals the entire workflow used by every engineer inside.
xAI & Grok co-founder, Jimmy Ba:
"At xAI, 90% of our engineers are using AI agent loops, which helps them ship 5x faster
now every xAI engineer is running 10-20 GrokBot agents to automate their routine"
in a 26-minute talk, xAI co-founder reveals the entire workflow used by… https://t.co/cxAFyljOyL pic.twitter.com/0k5Y2uKFfu
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A prompt is a request but a bot is a role. The bot persists, accumulates memory, owns a domain, and gets better at that domain specifically because you keep coming back to the same thread.
Grok Bot has a plugin panel for the integrations. Connect each one once and all bots get to use them.
Notion, Slack, Google Drive, AWS Agents, AWS SageMaker, Browserbase, Composio, and Context7, plus an option to build a custom one.
Teach a bot a workflow by doing it once while it watches. It saves the routine and can then run the same steps on its own next time.
Automate what is tedious to describe and trivial to demonstrate. Choose tasks that you do at least weekly, involves two or more tools, and where the steps rarely change.
Scheduling and email management are good choices. Have a 7am daily briefing, a Friday pipeline summary and month-end expense filing.
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