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Howell: Hardcode Proven Workflows With Scripts to Eliminate LLM Black Box Risk
“Once you've got a workflow that's working for you want to get rid of all the ambiguity. So I could have GrokBot write the blurbs every week and it does a really good job. But if the model changes or I don't know, just depending on how the bot's feeling, it mig…”
Howell: Cap AI Agent Status Reports at Five Lines to Save Tokens
“I think that you just five lines is all you need more than that. It's you're just going to be burning tokens in context.”
Howell: Visual Agent Avatars Reduce Cognitive Switching Costs Over Text Interfaces
“Color and shape is all the human brain needs to differentiate something. So you can easily recognize all your different little teammates here versus like a grade, just like a gray thread in chat GPT or Claude. It's just, I find this tool saves you so much on s…”
Howell: Have chief of staff agent execute a workflow before building a dedicated bot
“Say you want to set up an outbound sales agent for your newsletter and sell ad space. Have your chief of staff do that exact task once, and then once it does it, and you've reviewed it, and it worked, be like, okay, now create an outbound bot that does that th…”
Howell: Human operators must make tool choices instead of letting agents decide
“One of the pitfalls I see people make is having their agents make too many decisions for them. So for example, I've been struggling with where does our content live when we're writing the newsletter? Does it live in Notion database? Does it live in local files…”
Howell: Over-Engineering Agent File Sync Workflows Distracts from Actual Output
“Grokbot works well on its computer and it can read stuff on yours, but I find myself falling into this trap of, okay, you know, generate a report and then put it on my desktop and then put it in notion. And I don't know if other people are like this, but you e…”
Howell: Running multiple businesses on one GrokBot instance degrades agent effectiveness
“You don't have enough tokens to build four businesses as one at once. You're going to go into debt paying for tokens on even worse than that. You're going to have context bleed. That's going to make all of your agents less effective.”
Howell: Agent Creep and Unnecessary Bots Burn Tokens Without Making Progress
“Why I like rock bot and how I use it is I only add an agent if we really like needed, I just, I'm so anti idea creep and agent creep because that's how you burn tokens. That's how you'd spin your wheels. That's how you don't make process progress.”
Howell: Newsletters and directories offer lowest entry barrier with GrokBot
“I think the lowest barrier to entry with crockbot to start a business is probably newsletter and then directory. I think that stack goes together really nice.”
Howell: Three Rounds of Adversarial AI Review Improves Output to 90%
“Create a panel of sub agents for Grokbot. It could be, you know, the chief of staff or other agents on the team and have them do an adversarial review of your work. Do that in three rounds. And that has got, that has made me so much progress on stuff that norm…”