Y Combinator (@ycombinator) “At @SpaceXSI, Lauren Tan (@poteto) and Roman Ugarte (@romanugarte_) are on the c” — TopicDigg

At @SpaceXSI, Lauren Tan (@poteto) and Roman Ugarte (@romanugarte_) are on the core team that took Grok Bot from first line of code to launch in seven weeks. It lets you spin up AI teammates with their own identities and logins, and they just keep working in the background. Their marketing team gave a bot its own ad budget. Lauren built an entire feature with her bot in one Slack thread without ever opening Cursor. They joined us on the @LightconePod to talk about what it’s actually like working next to bots every day, and how the hard part is shifting from doing the work to figuring out what to do and why. 03:36 — Giving Bots Real Jobs 06:49 — One Bot or a Team of Specialists 10:39 — Sharing Bots Across the Company 14:46 — Identity and Permissions for AI Coworkers 18:37 — Bot-to-Bot Collaboration and Trust 22:35 — The Workflow Behind 4,000 PRs a Month 26:00 — Teaching Agents to Write Code You Trust 29:01 — Building a Personal Software Factory 33:44 — The Future of AI Coworkers 36:47 — Rethinking the AI-Native Company 40:13 — Teaching Agents to Check Their Own Work 43:56 — How Much Code Review Is Enough? 47:33 — Codebase Guardrails That Save Tokens 52:20 — When Product Judgment Becomes the Bottleneck 56:29 — From Finance to AI Engineering