Don't Rush to Launch Five Grok Bots—Only Three That Survive a Week Count

Dep laid out on X an order for building a Grok Bot team, and the core is just one sentence: don't start five on day one.

Original link: https://x.com/0xDepressionn/status/2117287485596135828

A Grok Bot can be understood as an automated assistant built with Grok; some handle review, some find links, and some handle reporting. Dep breaks the order down in detail—don't rush to pile on numbers first.

The steps are:

1. Write down the work you repeat every week.
2. Build the reviewer first.
3. Add a scout that only reports links it has actually opened.
4. Add a leader; it is the only Bot that talks to you.
5. Let these three run for a week and fix what breaks.
6. Only then add coding and metrics.
7. Mute everyone posting 30-bot setups.

What's interesting about this order is that it solves maintenance cost first. The reviewer comes first because no matter how much a Bot produces, if no one checks it, it just turns into a pileup. The scout only reports links it has opened, which cuts out a batch of secondhand links and unread content. The leader leaves only one entry point, avoiding several Bots talking at once and leaving you unsure whom to listen to.

The one-week test is the filter. Harry Tandy said in a reply that survivors beat volume every time; the one-week filter is the real test. Levi said step 7 is the most important step in the whole stack. pronaks added that step 7 would kill half his feed. Dep replied: hahaha same.

Levi also posted a video in that reply, with the caption that step 7 is the most important. The video itself has nothing to do with Bots, but placed here it fits the tone of the tweet.

There is also the opposite approach. kuch said he sets his Bots to clock off at 23:00; things found at 3 a.m. can wait until morning. He'd rather read fresh stuff than wake up to a backlog from 5 Bots. This idea doesn't conflict with Dep's order—the point in both is to make the system readable and maintainable first.

The common problem with multi-bot setups is often that maintenance cost is underestimated. Three Bots that can survive a week are more useful than seven that can't. Step 7 carries a bit of sarcasm: the people posting 30 Bots in the feed are usually showing off quantity, not results. Muting isn't being against tools; it's turning the noise down first.

If you want to try it, first write a list of the repetitive work you do in a week, then pick one reviewer and get it running. Don't rush to turn on all five Bots.