Stephen Forte spent one week with Grok Bot, the always-on personal agent from xAI, now part of SpaceX, and this weekend edition is the field report. Each account gets its own computer in the cloud, running whether your laptop is open or not. When the bot hits a login page, it hands you the controls; you type the password and hand the controls back. The vendor built that friction on purpose, and it is the cleanest transition of control Stephen has seen in any AI tool.

This is the third chapter of the weekend operator series: episode 131 covered the portable memory system, episode 137 covered assigning layers instead of picking tools, and this week a brand-new tool arrived and slotted into both.

In this episode, Stephen Forte covers:

• What Grok Bot is: always-on agents with their own cloud computer, launched in beta on Aug ...