Alexworks

dad. combat engineer.

building simple ai tools for small business owners @ alexworks

sharing the journey, the wins & everything in between

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if you have a team of grok bots, here's something you need to try

i gave my chief of staff bot an assignment:

help every other bot on my team get better at its job

the instructions were pretty simple

for each bot, i asked it to:

1. find 3 books related to its role

2. research the ideas from those books

3. save the useful knowledge as a skill

4. decide how it could apply that knowledge to its work

5. report back to the chief of staff with what it learned and what it plans to do differently

so instead of me researching books for every role and writing instructions for every bot myself

i gave the job to the person... well, bot, that already coordinates the team haha

the part i find interesting is saving the knowledge as a skill

i don't just want a summary sitting in a chat that gets forgotten.

i want the bot to have something it can refer back to when it's actually doing its job

for example, if a bot helps me write video scripts, it could research storytelling and hooks, save the useful principles, and use them the next time i ask for a script

then the chief of staff gets a report on what each bot found and how it plans to use it

i'm still testing this, so i'm not going to pretend my bots suddenly became experts or that every book was read cover to cover. i'll have to check the sources and see if their work actually gets better

but as an experiment, i like the idea of giving each bot a way to improve its own playbook instead of starting from scratch every time

basically sent my entire bot team back to school haha

if you try it, i'd be curious what books your bots pick

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there should be a separate volume setting for the sound an app makes when i accidentally turn it on in public

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when a business sends a quote, i think it's useful to say how long it's valid and what happens next

less guessing for both sides

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what's a piece of feedback about something you made that completely changed how you looked at it?

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@yeemio exactly, that's the part i'm most curious about too

a bot saying it learned something is one thing, actually seeing it do a better job afterwards is another haha

[Alexworks @alexworks]

if you have a team of grok bots, here's something you need to try

i gave my chief of staff bot an assignment:

help every other bot on my team get better at its job

the instructions were pretty simple

for each bot, i asked it to:

1. find 3 books related to its role

2. research the ideas from those books

3. save the useful knowledge as a skill

4. decide how it could apply that knowledge to its work

5. report back to the chief of staff with what it learned and what it plans to do differently

so instead of me researching books for every role and writing instructions for every bot myself

i gave the job to the person... well, bot, that already coordinates the team haha

the part i find interesting is saving the knowledge as a skill

i don't just want a summary sitting in a chat that gets forgotten.

i want the bot to have something it can refer back to when it's actually doing its job

for example, if a bot helps me write video scripts, it could research storytelling and hooks, save the useful principles, and use them the next time i ask for a script

then the chief of staff gets a report on what each bot found and how it plans to use it

i'm still testing this, so i'm not going to pretend my bots suddenly became experts or that every book was read cover to cover. i'll have to check the sources and see if their work actually gets better

but as an experiment, i like the idea of giving each bot a way to improve its own playbook instead of starting from scratch every time

basically sent my entire bot team back to school haha

if you try it, i'd be curious what books your bots pick

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@razvanships haha exactly, just tell me upfront and save us both the trouble

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i'd rather a business tell me “we don't do that”

than let me fill out a whole form before finding out

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@tomreilly_ai haha the worst part is realizing you put it on the wrong way after fighting with it for 10 minutes 😂

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fresh bedsheets are great

until it's time to put the duvet cover back on

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@ArgileNoland right there with you man haha

trying to keep my AI costs as low as possible until my projects start bringing in enough to justify spending more

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@matt_teeixeira i wonder if we'll end up with websites built primarily for agents rather than humans

the whole business model around traffic could change

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@samongaro_ i try to find people already dealing with the problem and talk to them before building anything

even better if i can get someone to commit to paying for a simple version

still learning this myself though haha

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@Rubythaii exactly, and it probably saves them from answering the same "are you open?" question 20 times too haha

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i like when a local business posts its holiday hours ahead of time

saves everyone from guessing whether it's open

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@DrewWakefield5 Same here haha

took a few days relax from X and losing followers and reach is going wayyy down

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@stemonte

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@TonyChanBuilds that's interesting, so almost half your followers came from one post haha

really shows how much a single post can change things, even when you can't replicate it right away

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@georgevichdev haha famous last words, "just a few small things" 😂

hope the distribution push pays off man!

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@b4dgerr a whole year building before finding out he had no actual plan to sell it is brutal

makes me think co-founders should probably validate their partnership with a small project before committing to something big