Federico Viticci on X:
"Now for something else that surprised me:
I was an early access user of @bot (Grok Bot). I'm impressed with the execution on iOS and underlying idea. Strikes a good balance of "more intuitive than OpenClaw" but also flexible enough for power users. I'm using it a quite a bit for non-coding tasks.
Some notes:
- Moving from thread-based to agent-based organization requires a perspective shift. Bots are easier to find than a long list of chats, but tasks inside them can be hard to track. It's the iMessage problem all over again, but with bots.
- Group chats with different agents are fun. I have a thread with my Assistant, Coder, and Researcher bots (each with separate instructions) that can research, implement, and set up something for me (like a skill for the X API I set up inside Grok Bot)
- You can tell it was created by the
@cursor_ai
team; very polished for a 1.0, harness and delegation to other agents feel solid.
- Creating a bot to manage other bots is another nice innovation from the
@SpaceXAI
team. I've had a few instances where I asked my main assistant to turn a session into a standalone bot. I think of them as "interactive skills" basically. Just like skills, easy to create too many.
- Not being able to see tool calls is kinda strange…? I get that they're trying to hide complexity, but obfuscation makes me trust the process less. I wish there was a toggle to see them.
- The ability to spin up a Cursor Cloud agent from Grok Bot is great.
- The unified search screen needs to be copied by everyone else.
- Computer use is well optimized for mobile. The Linux VM gets frequent updates, but its filesystem has been "permanent" – e.g. I installed a few CLIs in Bot's computer and all agents can use them. It's not an ephemeral sandbox.
- Not having a model picker is odd. Same as hiding tool calls: give pro users a way to decide.
- The app needs a voice mode, ideally with each bot having a separate voice. The idea of a "FaceTime call" with a team of bots sounds cool.
- Grok/Grok Bot/Cursor is basically their Chat/Work/Code take, but with three separate apps instead of a super-app. For now...?
- While on vacation, I asked my bot to recommend a cool activity with my dogs not at the beach. It recommended a local forest with a deer sanctuary and we went. Ginger fell in love with the deers.
Overall, @bot (Grok Bot) is a pretty strong debut with some rough edges. It brings some genuinely fresh UI and UX ideas to the space (especially on iOS). Curious to see where this goes."
