I’ll be honest, I was never a Grok fan. For work I’m more of a Codex guy for coding, planning, the heavy thinking (sorry Claude, I love you too but I have my favourite). That hasn’t changed, I’m still in love with Codex 😍
However, I started playing with Grok Bot recently. I expected to poke at it for an afternoon and move on. BUT that’s not what happened… I got hooked!!
Yes, Codex still runs my work. But Grok Bot is quickly becoming my go-to for everything else in my personal life.
I tried to reflect on why. I think the simple UX they went for is one big piece of it, but not the only one. Each bot has its own personality and its own name, and it genuinely feels like it’s always running, always doing something for you in the background unlike a Codex project, which sits there until you open it. It sounds like a small thing, but really it isn’t. It’s the difference between a tool you open and a teammate you rely on.
And the computer use takes that teammate feeling even further. Codex and Claude both have computer use too, but the way Grok Bot does it feels different - it’s like having an assistant sitting at their own computer, and when they need you, they simply hand you the keyboard for a moment.
A real example from the other day: I asked my main Grok Bot to go through my subscriptions and check whether I actually needed all of them. It spotted one I could easily live without. Normally that’s where my good intentions would end, because who has the energy to dig through account pages and dodge the “are you sure you want to leave?” offers. Instead, the bot went and did the cancellation itself. When it needed to log in, it handed the computer over to me, I logged in just as I would on my own laptop, gave control back, and it finished the job. That handover is by design, since logins, two-factor and payments always come back to you and it does really feel like your team mate handed you the laptop.
It really does feel natural to collaborate with Grok Bot, and for the small everyday admin that eats into personal time, it’s a big time saver. But more than that, if I’m honest with myself, without something pushing me on certain things, I just end up not doing them. The subscription I kept meaning to cancel, the meal plan I’d sort out “next week”, the gym session I’d skip because I hadn’t planned it. Grok Bot is really doing that for me, and I’ll give you some examples of how.
Meet Coach Milo and Vita
I built two bots in Grok Bot. Each has a name, a job, and a schedule. Neither is a chat window I have to remember to open, they’re teammates that show up in my Grok Bot.
Coach Milo — my personal trainer. Every morning at 5:00 it emails me that day’s workout and meals. Every Sunday at 17:00 it reviews the week and sends a full Monday-to-Sunday plan — training split, named lunches and dinners with simple portions, and a quick peek at my calendar so a dinner out or a late meeting doesn’t blindside the plan. My wife is CC’d on the weekly one, so we’re aligned on meals (this alone has saved a few “so what are we eating tonight?” conversations!).
I reply once with feedback on the gym and the food — and the next emails follow that plan instead of inventing something new. It plugs into Gmail and Google Calendar, so the plan fits real life, not a fantasy week. The daily email then is looking at the weekly schedule and is based of it — yet having it daily at 5a.m makes me wake up and hit the gym and know exactly what I will do. I know it sounds like “do you really need this?” — well I did, and it is really working for me!
Vita — my health partner. Vita watches the “boring but important” layer that Milo doesn’t own — sleep, energy, blood pressure, general eating, healthy living. It sends a fuller check-in on Sunday and a mid-week pulse on Wednesday. It remembers my medication and my goals, and it can spin up temporary routines when life needs them such as prep and recovery nudges around a medical appointment, for example. My wearable data still comes from screenshots or exports I share from my phone (not perfect yet as there is no Samsung Health connector yet), and it folds that into the check-ins.
So why does this actually work?
I’ve used ChatGPT and Claude for health questions plenty of times. It never stuck. Why?
Well, I think when you have an AI friend that comes to you and asks you, it just feels different. Sometimes that email in the morning is exactly what I need — one less decision to make about what to eat or what to do at the gym. These bots push a concrete plan into my inbox, ask for a short reply, adapt to it, and keep going on the weeks I’d usually drop off.
That’s also why Grok Bot won me over. Each bot gets its own cloud computer, plugs into the tools I already use, and runs on routines that fire whether I’m in the mood or not. Now, none of that is new on its own. But it’s SIMPLE, and for me it’s just working!
Here’s what I think makes the difference:
It comes to me — with ChatGPT, Claude or Codex I have to start the conversation. Milo and Vita start it for me, every morning and every Sunday, motivated or not.
It gives me something to follow — not an answer to a question I happened to remember to ask, but today’s plan, ready to go.
It remembers the plan — I reply once, and the next plan builds on that feedback instead of starting from a blank chat.
It knows my real week — it checks my calendar before planning, so Thursday’s dinner out doesn’t quietly break the whole week.
Each bot has one job — instead of one assistant for everything, Milo owns training and food and Vita owns health, and they work together.
It brings in the people it affects — my wife is on the weekly plan, which a chat window on my laptop was never going to do.
What surprised me is how little autonomy any of this needs. On my autonomy ladder these bots sit mostly at Suggest and Assist. They’re not doing anything clever on their own , they just turn up every time which makes the big difference!
Sometimes it’s all about routines, and with these AI friends I really feel I’m forming the right kind of habits!
It’s not just me
Claire Vo has been running about 30 of these agents (I am a big Claire fan, I must admit). She recently moved her whole stack off OpenClaw and onto Grok Bot, and her setup looks eerily like mine.
She has a chief-of-staff bot, Chief, sends her a morning briefing and a weekend plan-ahead summary. Her family bot, TradBot, builds a one-page “kitchen table newspaper” every morning that she prints for the family, plus a 2:30pm check with her husband on who’s doing school pickup. It’s pretty awesome! Check out this episode to learn more.
Her verdict on switching is my whole point. OpenClaw set the standard for what an autonomous agent could be, but it was a lot to maintain, even for someone as technical as her. Grok Bot gives you most of that power without the pain.
Start with one
You don’t need 30 bots. Pick the one personal routine you keep dropping training, meal planning, sleep, family logistics… Give it a name, a schedule, and a weekly review. Seriously just start with one and you will see how it really can be the best way how you form the best habits!
Check Grok Bot out, you’ll love it!
https://x.ai/bot
First published on Medium on 21 September 2026.