Peter Chee

Entrepreneur. Runner. Rock Climber.

[Peter Chee @pchee]

@trevin @bot Can you imagine if human employees did that too?!

[Matt Van Horn @mvanhorn]

TL;DR of my new article: who Lauren Tan (@poteto) really is, and how the engineer behind Grok Bot went from 31K to 198K followers in ten weeks.

She has been at Cursor for less than seven months, not even long enough to hit a typical one-year vesting cliff. In that time @elonmusk has reposted, quoted, or replied to her at least 21 times.

🇸🇬 A teenager in Singapore whose dad gave her Photoshop at 15, then a finance degree where her first program was an Excel macro

🎤 Her tweets got her invited to speak at EmberConf, and her talks got her DockYard, Netflix, and the React team

⚛️ Sole author of the React Compiler Beta post, co-author of React Compiler 1.0

🐶 Binnie, her bug-fixing Slack bot, helped inspire Grok Bot because she is "a fairly lazy person"

🏗️ She rebuilt Grok @bot on Dune, her agent-first framework, in more than 600 PRs

🚀 Her 2,500 PRs talk has 3.9M views: "You can't spawn 100 agents when you don't even trust the output of one agent."

🌌 Grok Bot Galaxy, a 72-hour livestream building a company with @grok and @bot, which Elon quoted to 30M views

🥔 pstack, where the P is for potato

Caveat: she is the first to say she did not build Grok Bot alone. "I wouldn't say I built it all."

[Robert Scoble @Scobleizer]

Emotional the next morning. I'm in my Model 3. I haven't been looking at the road; I've been looking at videos, reading X, and trying to catch up on AI.

I'm heading to a humanoid robotics conference in San Francisco where, let's be honest, there's an elephant in the room that hasn't been seen: Optimus. Jason Calacanis told me yesterday that as cool as the demo of the Roadster was, Optimus is going to be even cooler, and I believe him.

We're heading into a new age, and we're seeing a fight between the builders and innovators who are creating new things with AI, and the people who are resisting:
• Those who don't want a data center in their backyard
• Those who don't want autonomous cars because they think they will steal jobs
• Those who don't want humanoid robots in their stores or businesses because it upsets, disrupts, and changes their lives

There is a lot of fear, uncertainty, and doubt. But we are clearly in a new world today, very different from yesterday. I'm riding in an autonomous car, something most people haven't had a chance to experience yet. We're heading into a world of autonomy, brain-computer interfaces, rocket cars, glasses that augment the world, new kinds of medical technologies, and entirely new ways to live life.

It's a scary time for people who don't like change, and they are resisting hard. But there is a growing group of people who want to accelerate into the future. Elon, for all his flaws, is inspiring multiple industries. I've been traveling to robotics and space companies around America, seeing the latest startups and trying to understand how new technologies arriving daily are transforming business, manufacturing, and commerce. Invariably, they are inspired by Elon. Even the Chinese EV companies were inspired by him (some even ripped off his technology).

I'm emotional today because for the last 15 years (actually, all the way back to the Apple II), people resist change and give innovators a lot of shit. How many arguments have I had with people about LiDAR? And I'm not talking about uninformed people; I'm talking about veterans in the tech and automotive industries.

Last week, I was hanging out with 2,500 Tesla fans down in Texas, and I kept hearing stories, particularly from Cybertruck owners, about getting flipped off on American roads and people trying to bash or wreck their cars.

It's not just a Tesla thing; I've heard this from pioneers all my life. Doug Engelbart came to my first book launch party and told me about getting fired from his own R&D lab because his ideas were too futuristic and people got tired of him. He was talking about a day when we'd all hold a supercomputer in our hands, but he was saying that back in 1971.

It's these pioneers and engineers I'm thinking about today: the people like Elon who bring something new to the world while everyone gives them grief. I remember taking my first ride in the original Tesla Roadster. I was so excited that I came back to Silicon Valley to talk to founders and VCs (I had a privileged position in the industry back then), and I couldn't find anyone who thought he would succeed. They dismissed it as the folly of a rich dude, telling me there was no way he could take on traditional automakers like GM, Ford, VW, BMW, or Toyota, and no way he could build a profitable car company. There were rare believers back in 2008, like Steve Jurvetson, but they were few and far between.

Getting people to believe in a new idea, adopt it, and change their lives with it is extremely difficult. Unless you have a front-row seat, you don't realize how much flak people take simply for being early.

Now I'm heading into San Francisco to see a bunch of robots and talk to robotics companies. Robotics hasn't fully arrived yet, but it's starting to gain believers and customers. A wave of new companies is coming: Y Combinator alone funded around 25 robotics startups in their last batch, a huge shift from just two or three a few years ago. Something is cooking

[Peter Chee @pchee]

@trevin After seeing what your run did, I decided to try it against my project that started in February and this is what it did to the code base. I've had Kimi, Codex, Claude, and Grok in there leaving comments...

[Peter Chee @pchee]

@trevin @bot Your posts are so useful. I feel like I'm catching up on tons of things I would definitely miss if I wasn't reading your posts. Thx.

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

If you haven’t used @cathrynlavery’s Diagram Design, you’re missing out. Me and 50k others can’t be wrong!

https://t.co/Ld2oggYLgf

[Peter Chee @pchee]

@trevin @cathrynlavery I tried it out and it is really good. Yes, better than Mermaid. Quite impressed.

[Peter Chee @pchee]

@BowieHole @melvindvivas @grok lies.

[Matt Van Horn @mvanhorn]

I gave my 7 AI personal assistants a harder 10-question IQ test, all wired together with Agent Tincan. Every question was brand new so nothing could be memorized. Opus 5.5 wrote the test, Claude and GPT judged it blind. The question that broke two of them: "A bat and a ball cost $1.10. The bat costs $1.00. How much is the ball?" I was inspired to test this again because @grok @bot just switched it's model to Opus and they had the biggest jump on this IQ test.

Grok Bot - 100/100
Hark - 100/100
Dot - 97/100
Sesame - 96.5/100
Instinct - 90/100
Muse - 87/100
Fo - 71.5/100

[lauren @poteto]

Grok Bot is getting an upgrade!

[Peter Chee @pchee]

So cool that AI is adopted into the medical field in different ways!

[Matt Van Horn @mvanhorn]

TL;DR of my new article: every agentic engineering hack I know, October edition. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗝𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹. 𝗜𝘁'𝘀 the attack of the 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀.

ELI5: I didn't type this one. Claude Code (@claudeai) wrote 12 interview questions, Agent Tincan had @hey__fo call my cell, and fo interviewed me over five calls while I pushed a stroller.

🧠 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻. Opus 5.5, living in cmux (@manaflowai), calling every other agent so I don't have to open five CLIs

📝 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 /𝗰𝗲-𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 /𝗰𝗲-𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸. Compound Engineering by @kieranklaassen + @trevin at @every. Still rule number one

☠️ 𝗦𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗽 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀, 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻. My real settings.json is in there. New: @steipete's one-liner that lets computer use type into browsers and terminals, plus Peekaboo (@openclaw)

🔀 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗖𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘅, 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗸, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗿 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗺. The official Codex plugin (@OpenAIDevs), plus the @grok and @cursor_ai CLIs. I use all my tokens every single week

📊 𝗚𝗢𝗚 𝗖𝗟𝗜 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗢𝗔𝗧 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲. Every Sheet and Doc I touch gets edited from Claude Code. Better than any connector in the personal agents (@steipete)

📏 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗿. Headroom by @kylezantos puts every subscription's limit in the menu bar

🤔 𝗔𝗵𝗵, 𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗜 𝘂𝘀𝗲?! @Instinct (by @noahrshinn) is my #1: 48.5/50 on my IQ test, found $2,182 of lost money owed to me, did my son's Global Entry form by itself. Grok Bot (@bot) is #2. @Muse and Dot (@OpenAI) have the most potential. 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 @finkd. 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 @sama. Underdog pick: @underdogai by @0xSigil, 100% on your Mac

🇨🇦 𝗚𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗚𝗿𝗼𝗸 𝗕𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗷𝗼𝗯. One bot with its own @agentmail inbox runs my family's Canadian citizenship application and treats the rest of us like its agents. Another runs a weekly @slashlast30days sweep

🥫 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗧𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗮𝗻: 𝗹𝗲𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿. A karaoke bar hung up on Muse for being AI, so Muse had fo put a human on the call. Booked. All over @Tailscale

☎️ 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝘆𝗼𝘂. That's how this article got written. "𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘴 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘯𝘢𝘵���𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘺."

🛠️ 𝗧𝘂𝗿𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗳𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗼 𝗮 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹. /ce-plan "that was painful," /ce-work, never read either

🎬 𝗢𝗻𝗲-𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘁 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 @HyperFrames_. Steal references from @liu8in, @jake11moran, and @Miguel07Code at @HeyGen, grab them with yt-dlp, music by @NeonSardineO

⚖️ 𝗝𝗲𝘃 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗳𝘁. @typesafeai picks which of thousands of repos my overnight engine contributes to

🖨️ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝘀 𝗜 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝘀𝗲 (@ppressdev): ESPN and Instacart. Scores and groceries

📦 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝘆 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘆𝗲𝘁: @Cloudflare's Clef (a Jev drop-in that takes images) and @lunaroute_ai's flat-rate open models on US servers

📋 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗽𝘆-𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗞𝗶𝘁: every config, install, and prompt in one place at the end

🧨 The honest part: 𝘱𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘢 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨. I want to offload the thinking too, which probably isn't great for humanity. And there's still no skip-permissions for Claude Code computer use.

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝗰𝗸. That's the whole article.

[Peter Chee @pchee]

@mvanhorn WOW. Quite excited like it's Christmas morning! Thx!

[Peter Chee @pchee]

@mvanhorn sorry to ask again, i haven't used x for dms in years and didn't have a chat passcode, i think you will need to resend that!

[Peter Chee @pchee]

@jheitzeb @twilio @shisa_ai Ok, we need to see that kind of food at the next AI Tinkerers Seattle this isn't fair.

[Peter Chee @pchee]

@fitzgerald1337 @bot it works well for some things worth giving it a try if you use multiple ai agents

[Peter Chee @pchee]

I'm now running OpenClaw with Astra as the main AI who is giving evals to both Luna and Grok Bot to figure out what work really should be handled by either bot. Thanks to Agent Tincan and @bot for making this even possible.

[Peter Chee @pchee]

@ConnorTalksAI Grok Bot

[Peter Chee @pchee]

@trevin Nothing feels *safe* as breakthrough any more... it's just release and re-release every two weeks to keep leapfrogging each other.