Jordan Hardison

Pastor-founder building AIO: AI operating systems for churches, teams, and builders. Writing on agents, trust, and real workflows.

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

Most people are asking:
How smart can AI get?

I’m asking a different question:
Can people trust it with real work?

I’m Jordan. A pastor and founder building AIO.

People don’t trust systems because they sound impressive.

They trust systems when they know what happened, why it happened, and who is responsible.

That matters because real work is messy.

A pastor is trying to follow up with a hurting family.
A business owner is trying to keep customers from falling through the cracks.
A developer is trying to ship faster without losing control of the codebase.
A chatbot response is not enough.

AI needs to show:

• what context it used
• what action it took
• what data it touched
• what changed
• what failed
• where a human needs to step in

That’s what I’m building with AIO:
AIO Church — AI operating system for churches
AIO Corp — AI operating system for businesses
AIO Assist — AI workspace for builders

My thesis:

AI adoption will not be won by the smartest chatbot.

It will be won by dependable systems people can trust inside real workflows.

I write about AI agents, workflow reliability, church tech, product building, and the move from impressive demos to trustworthy systems.

Follow along if you care about AI that does not just impress people in a demo but actually helps people do real work.

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

@bot supergrok heavy user. Pretty aggravated. On demand $20 in 15min? No stop? Tried to stop it and it blew through with no way to stop it. Thankfully I had a low limit set.

Burned through grok bot in 2 days with reasonable usage. Happy to ditch 5 other ai accounts to use grok exclusively but multiple accounts doesn’t work because bots tie to accounts. Again, no stop?? @elonmusk @grok @SpaceXAI @cursor_ai

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

@DataChaz @grok @bot Yes but, there are real limit issues. Grok bot burns fast. Bots are cloud tied to one account. So you can’t just get multiple accounts and rotate. On demand for overage burned $20 in 15min. Grok build usage seems separate and good value.

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

@johnbai @bot 3 Claude accounts, codex, and supergrok heavy. Happy to cancel all others and use only grok, but I need an account with rate limits = to multiple accounts. Grok bot burned usage in 2 days. On demand = $20 in 15min. Unrealistic. Multiple grok accts is no good bc bots tie to 1 acct

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

@kristaletz @bot Grok bot user with supergrok heavy. How are you guys feeling about the rate limits on supergrok heavy subs.

I’d be happy to cancel my other subs if rates = multiple other accounts.

The issue is even if I get multiple heavy accounts bots tie to one. On demand = $20 in 15m.

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

@bot @leerob Woohoo! Supergrok heavy user here. Any chance for more usage or usage reset? It’s using the limit pretty fast. 5 days until reset.

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

I love grok bot, but already hit the limit with 5 days until reset. On demand spent $20 in 15 minutes.

What is everyone doing about the rate limit? Multiple accounts doesn’t help because bots are tied to one.
@elonmusk help!

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

Most tools wait for a prompt.

I built for the work that still exists when I walk away.

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

I don't want another chat window.

I want an IDE that keeps going after I close the laptop.

https://t.co/FTHQHenye8, Claude, Grok, Codex. Same workflow.

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

A good Sunday is not a plan.

I'm not trying to fill a room. I'm trying to build a church that knows where it's going.

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

@SidharthVijay_ 128+

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

@Ishaan_Gill_5 @anupamrjp Hey! This is not a screen recording. The product was used to created the click through animation and exported it as a video. This feature is rolling out publicly in the next couple days!

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

Interesting…this may change my perspective on him.

[Dario Amodei @DarioAmodei]

2/2 Second, on the messaging around AI.  I do not agree that my messaging has been disproportionately negative.  In fact it has been about equally balanced between risks and benefits: I’ve written one major essay about each, and even in interviews where I discuss the risks, I make sure to frequently mention the incredible benefits as well as proposing possible solutions to the risks (short clips from my interviews that end up on social media tend to be disproportionately negative, as that gets clicks).  In fact, I wrote Machines of Loving Grace because I didn’t feel the AI industry was painting an inspiring enough picture of how the technology could radically transform the world for the better.  The bulk of the essay is devoted to refuting skepticism of AI’s potential in health and biology, and showing why I think it will actually be possible to cure most human disease in ~5-10 years, as crazy as it may sound to ordinary people and frankly to biologists as well (I used to be one!).  And, if you read my most recent essay (Policy on the AI Exponential), I discuss concrete proposals for how to streamline the FDA process to make sure the deluge of AI-accelerated drugs isn’t slowed down by the regulatory process.  I feel the urgency here: I lost my father to Hepatitis C only a few years before the development of direct-acting antivirals (sofosbuvir), which cure 95% of patients and probably would have cured him.

I do agree that the public has a negative view of AI (and that this is a big problem), but I don’t think it is primarily caused by me or any other AI leader warning about AI’s risks.  I think it is fundamentally a crisis of trust.  I think that ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over.  The causes of this go back decades and AI is just the latest iteration of it.  I don’t think that a glitzy marketing campaign with a positive spin (which some have advocated that Anthropic do) is the way to win back that trust — at this point, saying that AI will cure cancer is more a cliche than it is inspiring, and most people think it is deceptive.  The thing that will work is *actually curing cancer*.  I think by far the most accurate criticism of AI companies including Anthropic is that we haven’t yet delivered on our big promises to benefit the world.  That is totally on us, and I think it’s the criticism you should be making, instead of all this stuff about messaging and marketing.

We are however doing our best to fix this: Anthropic is ramping up its efforts very quickly in biology and medicine, and we hope to have incredible results in the coming years and some early glimmers in the coming months.  When we’ve actually accomplished something real, the whole world will hear about it, as loudly as possible, you have my word on that.  But until then I don’t want to make empty promises, and in the meantime I feel compelled to speak honestly about the very real risks of AI and how to address them.  Honesty is the right thing on the merits, and in terms of public credibility and trust it is no worse than, and may in fact be better than, an approach that ignores or distracts from risks which people instinctively understand are real.

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

To open source or not to open source. This is the question….

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

@anupamrjp https://t.co/Gcdk7A5tqq

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

https://t.co/n4kwfL40tJ has had this for 6 months. But it is a great feature!

[Julian Goldie SEO @JulianGoldieSEO]

Hermes added two commands:

export

import

Export packages your setup.

Import restores it on another machine.

No rebuilding the agent piece by piece.

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

@aslambeg84 Grok absolutely. All factors considered. I’ve got multiple accounts from anthropic, open ai, and spaceXai

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

He with the most compute wins. “He” is @SpaceXAI

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

As previously predicted, Grok 4.6 cooks. And I say again, @SpaceXAI will be the leader in ai by orders of magnitude very soon. I’m here for it.

[Jordan Hardison @Jordanahardison]

It light of all the exciting @bot news, we are bring RAIBot to AIO very soon! imagine Grok Bot with the entire development stack. and your entire business cms, and well, everything else.