Nico Arkhipenko

Field CTO @SpaceXAI
🇦🇷 in SF

[Nico Arkhipenko @narkhip]

Since joining Cursor I’ve been living on Grok Bot. Nothing has hit me like this since we first started chatting with LLMs.

I’ve stopped opening most apps. The best UI is messaging teammates. You create Bots just by chatting with them. They learn from your feedback, they coordinate, and what used to take a pile of prompts is now one ask. The work actually moves.

I’ve seen others try to solve this, and I was always disappointed. What’s different about Grok Bot is the first principles design: dead simple on the surface, serious cloud infrastructure underneath. That's what finally makes the promise of a personal AI assistant real.

Once you try it, you’ll never go back.

[Grok Bot @bot]

Introducing Grok Bot, now in early beta.

Bots are AI teammates that do real work for you. They sign in to your tools, use them just like you do, and come back with finished work.

[Michael Truell @mntruell]

Grok Bot is now available to everyone with a standard Grok or Cursor subscription. It's grown faster than any product we've seen.

It's been particularly exciting to see the range of jobs people delegate to Grok Bot, from running small e-commerce businesses (including support, advertising, inventory, finance), coordinating customer events (directly pinging and working with dozens of human coworkers), testing production software, and completing large, mundane parts of users' day-to-day work.

[Lenny Rachitsky @lennysan]

BREAKING: I'm partnering with @SpaceXAI to give all Lenny's Newsletter annual subscribers a free month of Grok Bot 💥 (included in Cursor Pro+)

This is the first time @SpaceXAI has offered a deal like this to anyone, and I'm thrilled to make this amazing product accessible to more people.

If you're already a paid subscriber, grab your deal here (search for "Grok"): https://t.co/FmhnTSGaoM

If not, subscribe here and look for the Product Pass link in your welcome email: https://t.co/R2KxWfAfdw

I've been hooked on Grok @Bot since before it came out, and my usage has only gone up. Seriously, it's really really good.

Some of my favorite use cases right now:
+ After I record a podcast, taking a first pass at key takeaways and promotion ideas
+ Automatically adding school events to the calendar
+ Triaging support emails (saves me hours!)
+ Suggesting things I can do to be happier by analyzing my emails, calendar, and Slack
+ Landing me great IMAX Odyssey tickets 🙌

Grab your free month of Grok Bot here (search for Grok): https://t.co/FmhnTSGaoM

[@jason @Jason]

Grok @bot is a smash hit

It will have 100m users this time next year

It’s the ultimate agent onboarding tool for non-technical people

@bot will have more users than @x in three years if the X team keeps improving it at this pace

[Nico Arkhipenko @narkhip]

@rauchg And some of the best tech talent in the world, we need to connect more Bay Area with Argentina. Each time we do this, amazing tech companies emerge.

[Michael Truell @mntruell]

We're opening up Grok Bot access to a small set of enterprises this weekend.

Reply if you'd like for us to swing by your office in San Francisco and onboard your team tomorrow or Monday.

[Nico Arkhipenko @narkhip]

Coding can't be solved while bugs exist. Every bug is a counterexample: code that doesn't do what you meant, and doing what you meant is the job. Agents solved code generation. The gap between intent and behavior is wide open, and closing it is what @poteto means by engineering.

The code grows on its own now. The scaffolding is the job.

[lauren @poteto]

if your definition of coding is just the act of typing code, then yes, it's solved. agents can type code faster than anyone can.

but i think most of us think of coding as the act of solving problems with code. in that definition, coding is definitely not solved. agents can generate code quickly and build whatever you want, but without the right constraints, they end up causing more problems than they solve.

i think of this like my gardening analogy. agents are like magic beans that grow in any condition, but in wild and unpredictable ways. if you put the right scaffolding around them however, they can grow into whatever shape you want.

you still want humans thoughtfully and intentionally steering this outcome. we have a name for them: engineers. agents have greatly lowered the barrier to entry to doing engineering. what was once the domain of those who understood syntax and logic is now accessible to anyone who can explain their ideas. english is a new programming language for engineering outcomes with agents.

now, even ordinary people can build impressive software. and the good ones will learn engineering through first principles. as someone who is a self-taught programmer (i first learned how to code through Excel macros!), this is incredibly exciting to me, and i can't wait to see what everyone learns and builds in this new world.

let a thousand gardens bloom!

[lauren @poteto]

worktrees are dead. cloud agents are the future.

they've allowed me to massively orchestrate swarms of agents, all with their own computer. it's how i've been able to trust that my agents are actually doing what i want them to, because they can run their code, take videos and screenshots, and interact with UIs the same way users do.

cloud agents + pstack is the reason why i'm able to ship thousands of PRs a month with high confidence. spawn a verification /swarm of Grok 4.6 agents to "fuzz" every stack of PRs and you'll be able to let your agents merge their own work while you sleep!

although i miss writing the code myself, the combination of using @bot, @cursor_ai, and the speed, intelligence, and efficiency of Grok 4.6 makes building so much fun. the future of coding is really starting to look more like playing starcraft!

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

I’ve been using it for ~2 hours and I’m absolutely blown away at how I could automate a bunch of my workflows. Cursor team built a way for “normies” to automate stuff. Feels like an OpenClaw 2.0 moment.

(Zero affiliation, I upgraded to Ultra to use it and absolutely worth it.)

[Nico Arkhipenko @narkhip]

@KameronNolder3 Yes, if you can open the form, a bot can fill the repeated fields from one source so you’re not retyping the same stuff across sections. That’s exactly the kind of work it’s good at.

[Nico Arkhipenko @narkhip]

Since joining Cursor I’ve been living on Grok Bot. Nothing has hit me like this since we first started chatting with LLMs.

I’ve stopped opening most apps. The best UI is messaging teammates. You create Bots just by chatting with them. They learn from your feedback, they coordinate, and what used to take a pile of prompts is now one ask. The work actually moves.

I’ve seen others try to solve this, and I was always disappointed. What’s different about Grok Bot is the first principles design: dead simple on the surface, serious cloud infrastructure underneath. That's what finally makes the promise of a personal AI assistant real.

Once you try it, you’ll never go back.

[Grok Bot @bot]

Introducing Grok Bot, now in early beta.

Bots are AI teammates that do real work for you. They sign in to your tools, use them just like you do, and come back with finished work.

[Nico Arkhipenko @narkhip]

@willpiot When I said apps, I meant laptop/browser software, not the apps on my iPhone. But most iPhone apps are basically web apps anyway, so the delta is minimal. Think of Grok Bot as giving you and your agent a cloud VM (Linux for now) that your bots can actually work from.

[Nico Arkhipenko @narkhip]

@JreeYu I suggest doing the one-time login manually (yeah it’s annoying the first time). Prefer an MCP/plugin when it exists. Fall back to browser login when you have to, or when the Bot needs to see the UI (Figma, Google Slides, anything that needs a visual check).

[lauren @poteto]

excited to share more about my journey building pstack, shipping 2,000 PRs a month, and the client framework powering @bot tomorrow! see you there

https://t.co/LCp00IRbK7

[Nico Arkhipenko @narkhip]

@scottmartinis Exactly. And of course, memory is never truly solved... We'll share more about our engineering efforts soon. It's an ongoing area of investment and innovation.

[Nico Arkhipenko @narkhip]

@JreeYu They do in practice. That said, the best way for a Bot to learn is through your feedback. That is the beautiful part of Grok Bot. Feedback is just a reply. It feels like giving feedback to a teammate rather than tuning skills or editing Markdown.

[Nico Arkhipenko @narkhip]

@scottmartinis Memory is mostly abstracted away. Bots remember conversations, learn how you like things done, and share context when they work together. The best part is not thinking about context windows. I can just talk to them like teammates instead of optimizing every prompt.

[Nico Arkhipenko @narkhip]

@stevederico @tibor_tee Definitely, you can. It is as simple as copy pasting them.

After that, you can ask the Bots to improve the skills, or just give feedback, and the Bot learns, which is what I do. Not managing skills anymore is part of the beauty, and it works better than when I tuned them myself.

[Lee Robinson @leerob]

We’re making great progress on improving the writing quality and design taste of Grok.

Still a lot more to do, but I’m encouraged by how quickly we’re iterating. Please let me know any feedback.

Grok 4.6 soon!

[Maxime Prades @prades_maxime]

What feature or capability you want the most out of @cursor_ai right now?

[n2parko @n2parko]

cloud share doubled on cursor last few weeks and it will only accelerate from here

team's working hard to keep infra fast, cheap and reliable