Grok Bot engineer on running 100 sub-agents safely with verification skills
Grok Bot team engineer Lauren Tan argues for building verification skills so agents check their own work first, then spawning 100 parallel sub-agents, to avoid a flood of slop pull requests.
SpaceXAI engineer on the Grok Bot team, Lauren Tan: "if you don't have trust and you try to spawn 100 sub-agents or cloud agents, you're going to quickly find that you're just going to get a ton of slop pull requests and a bunch of regressions" most people scale agents first and fix the mess later. she does it backwards: Verification Skills → Agent Checks Its Own Work → Trust → 100 Parallel Agents → Whole Team Ships in this 37-minute talk, she shows how agents run the app themselves, take traces, find the hotspots and "hill climb to a better performance in our application automatically." no babysitting every diff. no wall of slop PRs. more useful than any agent course you'll pay for this year. bookmark it and watch it now. then read my full breakdown below on what Grok Bot routines really cost ↓
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