if you want to automerge thousands of pull requests , this is how she does it (via
@poteto).
809 in june. 10,926 in october. merged prs a month that touch the grok bot team's code.
i went through her posts and put the setup in one place.
every pr still gets an agentic risk review plus bugbot. low- and medium-risk ones automerge. only higher-risk ones get a person.
day to day, in her words, it's just grok bot and cursor projects. she used to have more cursor automations and replaced them with slack bots that have routines.
she works on many streams in parallel with pstack: perf, bug fixes, agent-friendly refactors, her own skills, features, ui polish, the harness, release and observability. not from sitting in a review inbox.
she's said the speed gains come from parallelizing. a single chat can take longer because of verification. she handholds it less, so she can run several large projects at once.
the real setup is in the codebase and the checks around it. she treats the codebase as memory. every agent mistake needs to turn into a constraint. her team built their own framework for grok bot so some anti-patterns become hard to write at all.
agents have to verify their own work. they run the app, and can sometimes model it in tla+. they produce screenshots or video that are easier to check than the whole pr. formal verification skills and ordinary run-and-debug skills work together.
she calls this an inverse pyramid. push as much as you can into determinism (fuzzing, property tests, formal and runtime verification, stricter languages) instead of spinning up more agent swarms.
in her oct 6 post, she tells sandcastle, a grok team bot, to cut. it runs a buildkite dry run, dms every pr author (they can object), kicks the build, and watches it. then it starts a fuzz swarm: usually 10+ agents on grok 4.7 xhigh, some directed, some chaos monkey, using their verification skills and feature map.
when something is high priority, she tells sandcastle to @ mention poteto, her engineer bot, which then spins up a cursor project to triage and fix.
her team ships a new stable version of the client at least once a day.
that's a lot of machinery under "just grok bot and cursor projects."
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Everyone believes CUDA is NVIDIA's moat, the reason we've maintained our dominance in the AI era. I've never believed that.
NVIDIA has only one true moat: its people. And the most important of them is Jensen Huang.
I've worked on CUDA compilers, libraries, and DSLs for eight years, from Volta to Rubin. I think I've earned the right to share my perspective on what NVIDIA's moat really is. I hope you'll bear with me.
1. What is CUDA?
Many people think CUDA is just a programming language and its compiler, and that NVIDIA's moat comes from the massive amount of software written in CUDA, making it impossible for developers to leave NVIDIA GPUs.
This is completely wrong. It's an incredibly naive understanding of CUDA.
To me, CUDA is everything NVIDIA does.
CUDA isn't just a language, software, or hardware architecture. It's a product defined by a unique customer experience.
When you find GPU programming too difficult, CUDA gives you an easier way. When your GPU code isn't fast enough, NVIDIA engineers respond and help you solve it. When a handful of GPUs can no longer push your technology forward, NVIDIA has already scaled its computing platform from desktops to massive data centers. When you need more data centers than anyone else can supply, NVIDIA has already secured wafer and HBM capacity years in advance to meet your demand.
That experience is CUDA.
It's made possible by the relentless, day-to-day work of everyone at NVIDIA. And the person who brings all these people together, who gives them a shared vision and purpose, is Jensen Huang.
2. What made CUDA possible?
Patience. Perseverance. An unwavering commitment to a vision.
Around 2006, NVIDIA bet that the future would demand far more computing power, and began transforming GPUs from graphics processors into a platform for general-purpose computing. Initially, it was a commercial disaster. The added costs hurt margins, the market wasn't ready, and the strategy faced enormous skepticism and pressure, including questions from the board.
But Jensen persisted.
For roughly a decade, NVIDIA kept investing in CUDA, building its hardware, software, and developer ecosystem long before the commercial payoff became clear.
Eventually, deep learning arrived. And NVIDIA was ready.
Today, this sounds like an inspiring story. But for those who lived through it, it meant a decade of perseverance, doubt, and being misunderstood.
Looking back at the history of technology, how many people could have done the same?
This is what I've always loved most about NVIDIA.
And now, Jensen has been pushed out.
This won't kill NVIDIA. The company can still create tremendous commercial value. But it has killed NVIDIA's soul. And how far can a body go without its soul?
If this is how Jensen Huang is treated today, how will those of us who built CUDA be treated tomorrow?
I love NVIDIA deeply, but I have to say it: NVIDIA is dead.
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First class of the day and my topology professor told us that OpenAI scooped “the most important problem in his area,” something he was writing a grant application for.
Things are starting to get weird in day to day life.
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“What do you envision on a day-to-day basis out there your role is?”
“Whatever the team needs from me to do… the luxury of my game is that I can do everything…”
LeBron is ready to showcase his versatility in a historic Year 24 in Philly 👑
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Question: “What do you envision on a day-to-day basis out there your role is?”
LBJ: “Whatever the team needs from me to do… the luxury of my game is that I can do everything…”
LeBron is show off his versatility in a historic Year 24 in Philly 👑
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Everything you need to master in 2026 to get rich:
• Using Astra 6 high for planning, low for execution
• Grok Bot to manage day to day
• Coding loops
• Taking advantage of Codex's computer use
• Herdr to manage tons of agents
• /goal
• Running local models
• Karpathy's Autoresearch
• Building an X audience
• Creating videos
• How machine learning works
• How databases work (been using Convex)
• Using API's
• Training your own LoRAs
• Elimination of doom scrolling
• Most importantly: focus
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Marathon Season 3 is more than six rounds of staying active 🏃
For Season 3, we focused on improving the overall Marathon experience, making it easier to follow, more social, more personal, and more rewarding.
Here’s a deeper look at what’s new and, more importantly, what it means for you 👇
🛡️ Insurance:
Insurance protects you against one missed day during a round, giving you some breathing room without removing the challenge of staying consistent.
Insurance is purchased separately for each reward pool and each round, with its price dynamically adjusted based on registrations and the previous round’s success rate.
And there’s another benefit for the community: 94% of Insurance purchases go directly into the Marathon reward pool, increasing the potential rewards for successful finishers.
👥 A better way to compete together
Marathon doesn’t have to be a solo challenge anymore. Season 3 introduces a much deeper Team experience. Create or join a team, customize it with your own name, logo, banner, and description, and follow your teammates throughout the competition.
Team leaders can also send notices and daily reminders, while members can react to team updates.
It’s designed to make staying consistent a shared effort. Encourage each other, keep your teammates accountable, and compete together.
And there’s something worth competing for: Every round, the top three teams receive rewards for every member:
🥇 1st: 5 GGBoxes + 3 Keys
🥈 2nd: 5 GGBoxes + 2 Keys
🥉 3rd: 5 GGBoxes + 1 Key
🏆 Round AND Season Leaderboards
Winning one round is great. Performing consistently across an entire season is even better.
Teams can now compete across two different leaderboards.
📅 The Round Leaderboard tracks performance during the current 14-day round.
🌎 The Season Leaderboard tracks cumulative performance across all six rounds.
This means every round is a fresh opportunity to compete, while long-term consistency matters throughout the entire season.
🎭 Make Marathon yours
Your Marathon journey now has its own identity.
Choose your Marathon Name and Avatar, then use them across your profile and leaderboards.
Season Pass holders also get access to exclusive Avatars and additional Marathon Name changes, giving you even more ways to customize your identity.
📊 A better Marathon Profile
Season 3 also makes it easier to look back at what you’ve accomplished.
Your enhanced Marathon Profile brings your history, achievements, stats, and performance together in one place.
The more you participate, the more your profile becomes a record of your Marathon journey.
⏱️ A clearer daily experience
One of our biggest focuses for Season 3 was making Marathon easier to understand day to day.
The refreshed challenge interface gives you a clearer view of your daily challenge progress, remaining Energy requirement, Insurance status, and Auto-join settings.
There’s also a daily countdown timer, so you always know exactly how much time you have left to complete your activity before the next day begins.
Less guesswork, fewer accidental misses, and a much clearer view of where you stand.
🚀 More flexibility when joining a round
Missed the start of a round? You now have a little more flexibility.
Rounds begin at 12 AM UTC, but registration remains open for another 12 hours, until 12 PM UTC on the first day.
That gives you an extra window to get into the competition without having to wait two weeks for the next round.
🎟️ More value with the Season Pass
For those planning to go the distance, the Marathon Season Pass unlocks additional benefits throughout Season 3.
⭐ STEPN Premium Membership until the end of the season
👟 One locked STEPN Common Sneaker
🎭 Exclusive Marathon Avatars
✏️ Additional Marathon Name changes
🎁 Additional Marathon rewards, drops, and bonuses
Season 3 is about making Marathon better at every step.
More ways to compete. More ways to connect. More ways to make Marathon your own. And a smoother experience that helps you focus on what really matters: getting out there and staying active.
Which Season 3 improvement has made the biggest difference to your Marathon experience so far? 👇
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Grok Bot is unbelievable. Automated 25% of my day to day in less than an hour.
This is literally my new workflow now:
Realtime Research → Grok Bot
Planning & Orchestration→ Grok Bot
Day-to-day Coding/Debug → Grok Build + Grok 4.6
Write & Run Tests → Grok Build + Grok 4.6
Complex Coding/Debug → GPT-5.6 Sol
Frontend → Fable 5
Bookmark this.
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ELON MUSK ON BUILDING A “STAR MIND” POWERED BY THE SUN
“We’ve already built the most powerful AI training clusters in the world. And then what we expect to do by the end of next year is about 10 times more than what we’ve done thus far. This will be very important practice for space AI.
And I do think that AI training will continue to be on the ground, but AI inference, the day-to-day use of AI, will be in space. So we’re aiming to get to 10 gigawatts by the end of next year. This is depending on what the value per watt is.
If the value per watt is probably going to be $30 to $50, which means if we bring 10 gigawatts of AI online by the end of next year, it will be $300 to $500 billion a year in revenue. Big numbers. And sometimes I wonder, what is our purpose?
And it could be that the purpose of humanity is to give birth to a star mind, a sentient sun. I don’t know what the AI is going to think about, honestly. It’s a lot of compute.
But I guess this is the next step in the evolution of a civilization, is to harness the power of the sun. There was a physicist called Kardashev who argued that you could consider any given civilization on the basis of whether it has been able to harness most of the power of its planet, or most of the power of its sun, or most of the power of its galaxy, and beyond. So that’s what’s going to happen.
And we’re going to do it. The factory for star mind will be located nearby, adjacent to us, basically. They just come from space.”
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