Cursor engineer lauren reveals the original inspiration for Grok Bot was her internal Slack bot called Benny that would automatically fix bug reports for Cursor while she slept: "I built this bot called Benny. I'm a fairly lazy person, and we were getting so many bug reports for Cursor,... and I wanted to just fix them all." "I started thinking about how would I make it so my agents could just automatically fix bugs for me while I sleep? That was the inspiration for some of our earlier experiments with building a more persistent bot." "I got so many questions like how did you build Benny? How can I build my own? That inspired some of the thinking behind Grok Bot. What if everybody could define one of their own bots, give it an identity, and give it things like its own computer, plus routines and automations." "I have bots right now that every time someone gives us feedback on Grok Bot, my bots are automatically going off and fixing them for me, and I just review their code." Grok Bot Cursorshow more

@poteto Kind funny how every cursor engineer is on here basically saying they invented grok bot

@poteto Benny >>>

@poteto best products keep starting as someone's internal hack for a chore they hated. Benny to Grok Bot is the whole arc. the unlock is not the model, it is giving the bot a persistent identity and a queue so the work happens without you asking.

@poteto @poteto seems like she’d be a really cool friend

This is the part I think gets really interesting. One engineer builds Benny because she’s tired of waking up to a pile of bug reports. Then suddenly the bot is fixing things overnight and she’s just reviewing the work in the morning. Now imagine every team inside a company has a few of these running. That’s going to be incredibly useful, but also pretty chaotic without some way to control what they can touch, what rules they follow, and what actually gets committed. That’s a big part of why we’re building Marrow. The bots are coming either way. We just want to make sure companies can actually manage them.

@poteto Bullish

@poteto Highly productive lazy people are the best

@poteto So do you wake-up in the morning, find you are out of tokens, and just go back to bed?

@poteto Um, where can I watch this one?

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@poteto does benny have a linkedin yet or is that the next round

@poteto Lauren da goat

@poteto Incredible!

@poteto Love the lazy engineer origin story here. We actually dug into how Grok Bot handles that 24/7 work angle here:

@poteto sounds like @steipete ‘s interview but just paraphrased

@poteto That's the product

@poteto the 'internal Slack bot fixed bugs while she slept' is the real origin story. every other AI agent launch dresses up a demo of work someone already automated for themselves. Slack bots in 2021 grew into Cursor-in-2026 because the founders were the power users.

@poteto Building a bot that fixes bugs while you sleep and then productizing the same pattern is the cleanest origin story.