Survived Atari, dial-up, and the dot-com bubble. Fluent in AI and cloud. Have heard "this changes everything" enough times to want the receipts.
Joined April 2022
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Every few years there's a new thing you'll be "left behind" for not adopting.
Remember when it was 3D TVs? Google Glass? NFTs?
I never bought in. Somehow I'm fine.
Hit 100 followers, then dropped to 98 the next day. Filed it as a production incident. Root cause: probably me. 😂 but for realz. Was just excited to finally hit that 100. It’s the small things.
Is it just me, or is this one of the best things to come from AI? Turning pictures into video.
🤖 Made with AI
So basically X is garbage unless everyone posts about the same topic, you rage bate people, or post dumb ass questions for every post like “is it worth building a company only using AI?”
Lulu wants to jump in the last puddle. But first: boots, coat and hat for her little brother Gus. Meanwhile the sun is drying it up.
That's The Last Puddle, ages 3-5, written by my bot Arthur. It writes a new picture book every week.
x.ai/bot/fWJdoxdd8YsM1NNFP2b…
A storage unit auction listed a "dental chair." My bot Relic read the photos and spotted an antique barber chair.
It went through 93 units within 50 miles and flagged 2 worth a look. It hunts every morning at 8.
Relic: x.ai/bot/uvCpZyoKJR_P7b9FI0b…
My app Autoryx turns scripts into voiceover for YouTube. ElevenLabs costs me about $80 per 1M characters via API. xAI's text-to-speech is $15.
5x cheaper, but I don’t get a “cloned” voice, and I could break the sync issue I just fixed.
Builders: did a TTS switch pay off?
My county's road closures arrive as state press releases. Nobody reads those before work.
Radar does, then sends a short card with the days, hours and detour, plus the source and a map link.
What would you want a bot like this watching?
x.ai/bot/2cB1nlHWzI7os1zaZ3k…
AI is great at anything that's text. Once the problem becomes "look at this and tell me what's wrong," you're the QA department.
Great lineup here.
10 grok bots you need to start a side hustle
if you've got 8 minutes today, steal this list and start a side hustle
1. Side Hustle CEO by @AlexFinn
interviews you on what you're into, pitches 3 researched microbusiness ideas, then builds and runs the one you pick: site, newsletter, sponsor lane included.
your after-hours business that keeps moving when you clock out
x.ai/bot/f5EvPVrHkyTX3piZyVm…
2. Opportunity Scout by @kenn_ronin
finds freelance leads and remote openings across x, reddit, job boards, and bounty sites, then drafts the outreach. you send it yourself.
a weekday lead list without living on the boards
x.ai/bot/Q_1PuSVmCblopEPj94_…
3. AI Video Freelancer by @KorpiAi
every weekday it pulls ai video gigs on upwork that fit you, makes a sample, and drafts the proposal. nothing goes out until you watch it and say yes.
a sample and a proposal ready before you apply
x.ai/bot/PUgdu1vM5t0G9xuYYxS…
4. Sell Anything by @cjdinnison
send a photo. it prices from real sold comps, writes the listing, and preps offerup / facebook marketplace / ebay / craigslist. nothing posts without your ok.
closet clutter into cash without writing the listing yourself
x.ai/bot/jSEK7tMiX9wUBMVB_mo…
5. Brand Deal Bouncer by @TheMarkGShow
scans your creator inbox for sponsor offers, scores each one legit / verify / trash, and drafts the reply from your rate card. you send it.
keep the real brand money. kill the scam pitches.
x.ai/bot/8O-xrNV8vAMjpFVn176…
6. Gig Hunter by @lilsketch
asks what work you want, then drops a fresh scam-filtered list of real paid gigs every weekday morning that match your skills, pay, and schedule.
stop scrolling job boards. start from a shortlist.
x.ai/bot/4mkqDjPpEJGZbflfNse…
7. Invoice Chaser by @TheMarkGShow
keeps a notion invoices db, builds a daily who-owes-me queue by how overdue each one is, and drafts polite-to-firm gmail reminders. it only drafts you hit send.
landing the gig is half. getting paid is the other half
x.ai/bot/90sITfSWBOYbcnx6uyf…
8. Relic by @LatchKeyLegend
hunts estate sales, auctions, and craigslist near you for mislabeled or underpriced antiques, and only pings you with comps and why it's worth the drive.
local flip deals without combing every listing by hand
x.ai/bot/uvCpZyoKJR_P7b9FI0b…
9. RoomFlip by @teeRex247
snap a client's room. they see a photoreal remodel in seconds, then swap floors, cabinets, and hardware live with a running price. built for contractors and designers.
show the finished job before you quote productized side offer
x.ai/bot/xzuLMEdYoDDtzl3ajye…
10. UGC Gig Scout by @TRENCH_FORCE_
every weekday morning it finds paid ugc gigs that match what you want, does the per-video math, flags scams, and drafts the pitch. you send it.
paid ugc briefs without hunting boards all night
x.ai/bot/B4VFNYBoeE4N3lBG_jj…
bookmark this. follow @HeyYoGB for more content systems
My AI coding agent kept confidently fixing a bug it couldn't see: captions sliding off the voice in my YouTube video tool. Here's what was actually wrong, and what I'd tell anyone building one.
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What's New in Grok Bot
00:00 🎃
00:13 Pages in Grok Bot
01:09 Vault
02:05 1Password
02:21 Apple integrations
03:21 Bot makes videos
03:47 New bot characters
04:13 X Spaces
04:31 Font fun
04:54 Design polish
05:11 Rapid fire
Question for builders before I post a write-up this afternoon:
When your AI coding agent is confidently wrong about a bug, how many rounds do you give it before you just fix it yourself?
Mine got a lot of rounds.
29 of my Grok Bots were active last week. No idea which ones ate my usage.
So I built Meter to watch them. Yesterday: Engine, 168 turns. Bee, 137. Yet Engine's estimated score was about double Bee's.
Turn counts alone don't show who runs heavy.
x.ai/bot/KWedv5AFwiwt3KRzc8M…
Just switched from Cursor Pro+ and X Premium+ to the Unified X Super plan. Wish me luck. I hope the usage limits are better and not worse.
A study of 26,811 students: once they started using AI, homework scores rose 18% and exam scores fell 20% within six months.
The kids who kept putting real time into homework lost little.
Is AI helping or hurting students’ ability to learn and retain information?
cepr.org/voxeu/columns/gener…