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00:00:00So GrokBot is the latest tool being hyped up by your favorite AI influencer, which is kind of a
00:00:04shame because this thing is actually a complete waste of time and it will cost you $200 a month
00:00:09to even use. Now GrokBot is being billed as the easiest way to create a team of agents. Think
00:00:14OpenClaw or Hermes, but this is inside the XAI ecosystem, which means you can only use Grok.
00:00:20But if you're someone who already knows how to use ClaudeCode or Codex, is there any point at all
00:00:24in taking the time to learn GrokBot? Well, in this video, we're going to cut through the hype
00:00:29and answer that question. Although I think you already know the answer. So let's talk about what
00:00:34GrokBot actually is. It's an interface that allows you to spin up a bunch of agents. All these agents
00:00:39have Grok in the background and you can assign them to do different tasks. The sell here is that you
00:00:44can have multiple bots working at once. They can talk to one another and they can work even when
00:00:49your computer is closed. So they have a virtual server that they're all running in. It's a virtual
00:00:54computer. That's how they're able to talk to one another. That's how they're able to share files.
00:00:58And what you hear a lot of people say in other videos is that each agent gets their own computer.
00:01:01That is not true. They're sharing one computer. You can connect it to pretty much any major app. So
00:01:06think Google Workspace, Slack, GitHub, Vercel, all that. And so you can control everything from
00:01:12GrokBot. And you have things like skills and routines, just like you would inside a Claude
00:01:17code. And the idea is that these bots get smarter over time. So as they run something,
00:01:22they can check the previous context, see if it worked and sort of update themselves.
00:01:26If this sounds extremely similar to things like Hermes and OpenClock, that's exactly what this is.
00:01:30This is a very polished version of those sorts of tools. And again, it's under the XAI umbrella.
00:01:36It also has a pretty slick iOS app. So controlling all this from your phone is pretty easy.
00:01:40But then we run into issues right away when we talk about pricing. Remember, XAI now owns Cursor.
00:01:45So in order to get a GrokBot that has its own computer, which is one of the big cells,
00:01:50you need to be spending $200 a month on the Cursor Ultra plan. Now that comes with Cursor as well.
00:01:56But understand, this is $200 a month just to get essentially one of the finding features of this
00:02:01thing. The other major issue with GrokBot is that it is the GrokBot. This is not the ClaudeBot.
00:02:06This is not the GPTBot. You can only use Grok with this. We can't just mix and match whatever
00:02:11model we want to do our job. So with that in mind, who is this thing actually for? Is this for people
00:02:17who use ClaudeCode or use Codex? Absolutely not. Is this for people who use Hermes and OpenClaw?
00:02:22I would argue also no. The only sort of like demographic that would get a lot of use out of
00:02:28this is someone who wants to be a Hermes user, who wants to be an OpenClaw user, but isn't
00:02:33technically adept enough and instead is willing to shell out $200 a month to sort of have it pre-built
00:02:38for them. If that's you, great. Enjoy it. But if that's not you, there's pretty much no point
00:02:44to using this thing, especially because we can do all this inside of ClaudeCode or Codex
00:02:48for cheaper. So here I am inside of GrokBot. One of the big cells is I can spawn a bunch of agents
00:02:53to do work on my behalf. If I want to start a new one, I just hit new chat and I have the ability
00:02:57to create a new bot. I can then easily edit the profile of that bot. I can say, you are now the
00:03:03coding bot. You do code and you are responsible for all tasks related to coding projects.
00:03:14And that's great. But how is this a step forward in any way from what we can do inside of ClaudeCodex?
00:03:19I mean, if I'm inside the ClaudeCode desktop app and I want another agent, guess what I have to do?
00:03:24I just press the plus button. I now have another agent and then I can spawn another one and another
00:03:30one from inside the terminal. All right, here's one agent.
00:03:37There's a second agent. Here's a third agent. I'm failing to see what the point of this is and how
00:03:44this is any sort of leap forward. The second thing that gets hyped up about CrockBot is I can have all
00:03:48these different sub agents be responsible for different things. So I have this content bot that does stuff.
00:03:53I have this research bot that does research. I have my Google bot that has to do with Google and you just
00:03:57saw the coding bot. How is this any different from me just spawning another sub-agent here, not even
00:04:04another sub-agent, just another chat and using literally any skill I want for a specific task?
00:04:11Again, how is this a leap forward? Now, the one thing CrockBot does do that makes it a very smooth
00:04:16experience is how these agents essentially talk to one another. So using research bot, I told it to find
00:04:22information about GrockBot and I said, send your finding to the content bot. And it did that in an
00:04:27extremely smooth process. But in terms of your practical day-to-day, is this a huge differentiator
00:04:34between just running something or multiple skills under the same umbrella in different chats here
00:04:39inside of Claude or Codex? Furthermore, if I want my sub-agents or I want my agents to talk to one
00:04:44another, I mean, Claude just came out with that ability, what, a couple of days ago? And secondly,
00:04:49if that's something I really want to do all the time, I can have them create some sort of document
00:04:53in my code base and log changes there. Third, in terms of how often are you having sub-agents
00:04:58actually talk to one another regularly? It's not something I think you do that often. Now,
00:05:05GrockBot is able to do this in part because of this virtual computer they're all running on and
00:05:11sharing. And you're looking at their screen right now. Now, this is a great thing. And this is actually
00:05:15pretty smooth in terms of setting this up. Like, it's all automatically set up for you.
00:05:20Which is why I said this is essentially a nicely wrapped Hermes or OpenClaw clone.
00:05:26We could do this with Claude Code, right? We could set up inside of a VPS or I have a Mac Mini. Like,
00:05:30we can have routines and stuff run over and over all the time. But if we're doing that with Hermes or
00:05:34OpenClaw, it does require a bit of setup. With GrockBot, it's just like that out of the box.
00:05:39But is that worth the $200 a month premium to essentially have that set up for you? I would argue
00:05:46no. Secondly, the type of person who wants this thing is probably technically adept enough to get
00:05:53it running on their own, which brings us back to the question of like, who is this even for?
00:05:58Now, I've been kind of hammering GrockBot in comparison to Claude and Codex. And I don't think
00:06:02anyone is seriously saying that it is any sort of replacement. But I felt like I wanted to make this
00:06:08video because you watch all these things about GrockBot and you think this was some like major
00:06:13tier one AI tool that all of a sudden is on the scene that, you know, is changing the paradigm here.
00:06:18Like, it's not. This is literally not. This is literally a slick, you know, very user-friendly
00:06:23OpenClaw, which is fine. But again, I feel like when you kind of pump the brakes when these sort of
00:06:29things come out, because most of the people watching this, watching these videos, know how to use
00:06:33Claude Code and know how to use Codex. And I think they kind of get sent in the wrong direction,
00:06:37have their time wasted when all they need to really do is learn how to use the tools they
00:06:41already have better. So if you are not an aspiring Hermes or OpenClaw user who is completely flustered
00:06:47with the setup, then GrockBot isn't for you.
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