How Grok Bot designers use AI agents to build personal sites and product prototypes | John Bai & Peng Zheng
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Who are John Bai and Peng Zheng and what is the Grok Bot team building?
I use AI to get me off my computer, not on my computer. And so the fact that you were at the gym, got asked to do something, and your disability would be like, yep, go for it, get it done, and finish your workout. It's like a much nicer way to work.
I was able to just screenshot in Figma these two separate artboards of work that was already in progress. And doing so, I just pointed to those, had the bot do his work. I I didn't even read most of this stuff. It produced three outputs, copy-pasted what Ben had sent me on Slack and said, think we got all these covered. While I'm on this call, work is getting done, which I really love. I think the fact that I don't have to do this stuff myself is a godsend.
Now when I go somewhere, I can basically just send Grofbot a photo, a screenshot, or literally just the name of the place. And it'll figure out what the place is. It'll look it up through Google Places API and I get the right location, the coordinates, it'll fix the perspective and remove people and turn it into like a 3D miniature visual style that I used on the site.
AI can feel like a threat to the creative arts. Like, look, your highest calling was never to design gradient fills and Figma. And what I tell people is Welcome back to How I AI. I'm Claire Vaux, product leader and AI Obsessive, here on a mission to help you build better with these new tools. Today I have John and Pong from the Grok Bot Design Team, and they're gonna show us two really awesome AI design use cases. One, how to build a beautiful, custom, and easy to update personal site that meets the bar of a designer. And two, how GrokBot was used to design. design, Gruppba, including where Figma Bro can make your life at the gym and work a lot easier. Let's get to it. This episode is brought to you by WorkOS.
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Glad to be here. Happy to share. Thanks for having us.
So I am a big bot girl. Actually, we were just talking before the show last night. We did a ladies who grok bot night at Indrees and Horowitz. There were 900 registrants, a line around the block. Gropbot is having its moment. And one of the things I love is so many people inside SpaceX AI actually sharing really practical and unique use cases of how they themselves have found new ways to get work done, build software, do awesome things with Grokbot. Um, so how has it been, you know, the past couple of weeks just been being in the middle of this sort of explosion in Grokbot interest? How does that feel um shipping a product like that?
It's really exciting. I mean, I feel like it's rare to have this amount of attention and this amount of engagement on something that a designer gets to work on. And I think um we're learning day by day also from our users. I think there's a lot of questions being asked about us as though we're experts on the product just because we're designing it. But I think like we're learning just as much from the users, from uh people sharing their own workflows. Um their tips and tricks, especially on X recently.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
Who are John Bai and Peng Zheng and what is the Grok Bot team building?
0:00–8:14
2
How did Peng create a self‑updating personal website using Grok Bot as the entire backend?
8:14–17:33
3
What is the Grok Bot hype train and why is it generating so much buzz?
17:33–27:39
4
How does AI make design more accessible for creators and non‑designers?
27:39–33:46
5
What is the Figma Bro bot and how does it let you finish design work while you’re at the gym?
33:46–37:55
6
How does DevBot turn a shower‑thought into a working prototype without a PM or engineer?
37:55–40:32
7
What is the “trash can method” of software development and why does it work?
40:32–41:31
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