I’ve been playing around with Grok Bot recently. It’s not perfect. But it’s really good. And it’s clearly my main AI at the moment. The on ramp is easy, so that’s why I went there to get into agentic programming. I spend hours every day with Grok, and so far it’s been well worth the time and financial investment. Sure, I have conversations with it to flush out ideas, do research, and get back into programming. Just like I’ve been doing with other AI tools. But I really wanted to rapidly assign bots specific tasks that I know need doing but don’t have the time to even start. My To Do list is way too long for anything manual at this point. And I have no time for the moronic AI doomers out there. So, I figured I’d start with something really simple — cleaning up this little website right here. I mean, what could possibly go wrong with that, right?

I asked Grok to crawl the site and draft a plan based on what I have now and what I want to do for the future. In a few minutes I got my plan. And it seemed reasonable enough to at least begin the process. For step one, I just wanted to fix hundreds of broken links and tags in hundreds of posts and pages. Easy, right? But that easy task would take me weeks of daily clicking around the horrible WordPress admin interface, which would only cause endless waves of anger that I don’t need right now. Plus, I’d learn nothing in the process.

So, I then gave Grok direct access to the site, we iterated on what to fix and why, and I scoped this first piece of the project narrowly. After a few minutes of back and forth, Grok went off and fixed hundreds of broken links — in minutes! After I checked things and found that the changes worked, I gave instructions to fix the tags and then I closed my laptop. Grok then went to work on its own computer and fixed hundreds of tags on hundreds of posts while I was walking to the pool for a swim. That last bit felt nice. For the first time, stuff was getting done while I was offline in real life doing something else. As I walked to the pool, I got a ping on my phone via the Grok app that the task was done. Nice. I checked later on and the fixes were done and worked. Simple for Grok, I realize, but for me it would have been tedious at. best.

I’ll never waste my time fighting with the WordPress admin interface or the never-ending snake of nested style sheets on WordPress again. There’s much more to do to just fix things on the site, but I’ll poke at that slowly over time. Then after everything is working as needed, I’ll start working on a re-design for the new projects that I’m planning.

Next up I’m going to automate my social posts that involve just pushing photos from events. I’ll keep my own commentaries on things for manual posting so I can think through each one individually, but for bulk image posting in the hundreds, that stuff will be automated. It’s nice to know that those things can be posted all day and all night while I’m doing other things.

This is only the beginning.