Three xAI Engineers Built a Company in 72 Hours on Stream — Field Notes Now Open-Sourced
gaganghotra_ · x · 2026-09-20
Three xAI Grok Bot team engineers (Roshan Sadanani, Lauren Tan, etc.) live-streamed building and launching a product from an empty repo in 72 hours using their own agent platform. unicodef1wn compiled all three streams into the GitHub repo "grokbot-field-notes" plus a 24-page PDF guide.
What's inside:
- AGENTS.md: drop into your repo root so agents read context and stop guessing
- 40 antipatterns: every failure that broke live on air, with the rule each produced
- 69 bot roles: one job description per file, ready to paste
- 9 playbooks: eng, PM, founders, sales, SDR, support, post-sales, marketing
- Real economics: every cost quoted on stream and where tokens actually go
- Hour-by-hour 3-day timeline told as one story
Every rule came from a real, public, live failure — nothing theoretical.
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