SpaceX principal engineer: grok bot merged PRs surged 809→10,926/month with 30x code shipped
elonmusk · x · 2026-11-05
SpaceX principal engineer @poteto previewed slides from the AI Engineer Code Summit showing how the team ships 30x more code without reading all of it, while performance stayed flat or improved: merged PRs touching the grok bot team's code grew from 809 (June) to 10,926 (October); cold launch dropped 31% (2669ms→1831ms), long-chat typing latency median fell 61% (11.6ms→4.5ms). About 230 people landed at least one PR to grok bot in October. He credits agent-friendly architecture bets for taming the slop, with the ceiling far from reached.
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