"A person's emissary is as the person himself" | Tales of language-model emissaries and flesh-and-blood peoplehttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/enhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-30-grokbot-architecture/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-30-grokbot-architecture/What changed in how Grok Bot and similar products are built, and why a team of small shluchim, each with one job, works better than one shaliach who does everything.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTTeamworkGrok Bothttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-26-still-alone/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-26-still-alone/I have a personal assistant. And by the time I remember to ask him for something, I've already done the work alone. How to stick a request to an action that already exists in the day, check a small sample, and stop managing every shaliach one by one.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEveryday AIGrok Bothttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-23-lima-beans-for-mom/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-23-lima-beans-for-mom/My mom asked for a lima bean recipe. A little over an hour later she had a 12-page PDF, step by step, with realistic photos, and I only asked and replied.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEveryday AIGrok Bothttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-20-whatsapp-group/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-20-whatsapp-group/I opened a small WhatsApp group for people building shluchim with Grok Bot or similar tools. A place to ask where you're stuck and see what others actually built. Conversations between people who build, not another update channel.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTGrok Bothttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-15-central-warehouse/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-15-central-warehouse/Ideas, documents and decisions you worked on with AI get buried inside chats. For me, everything goes into one warehouse outside the AI tool, Linear in my case, and I just tell my shaliach "save it to the warehouse for me". That way it's clear where everything is, and tomorrow you can pick up right where you left off, even with a different tool.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEveryday AIAI at workhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-13-software-as-small-gifts/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-13-software-as-small-gifts/A keyboard-language mistake became TypoSwap, a personal gift for Mac and Windows, with our private joke and tear-open installation. Still a test version.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEveryday AIAI at workhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-15-break-context-window/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-15-break-context-window/I asked to turn three office rooms into one shared space. With a fleet of shluchim for each person, I want more conversation too, with room to focus.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI at workTeamworkhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-13-wake-up-sky/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-13-wake-up-sky/My son calls ChatGPT voice mode "Sky." I spent two and a half hours talking to it at work, with more than four PRs an hour. Now I want a sense of humor too.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI at workEveryday AIhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-13-my-shaliach-just-wanted-cottage-cheese/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-13-my-shaliach-just-wanted-cottage-cheese/I asked the Chef, the shaliach that plans my meals, to fill a cart at Rami Levy so I'd have all the groceries for the week of meals he planned for me. Rami Levy's site blocked him, because Grok Bot's cloud computer goes out to the internet from the US, not from Israel. We also tried knocking on Shufersal's gates, we talked about a VPN, and in the end Grok Bot added a new feature that routes network traffic out through my own local computer. We tested it, and now when the Chef runs automatically every week and plans my weekly meals, he also does my shopping at Rami Levy with no problem.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEveryday AIhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/grok-bot-guide/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/grok-bot-guide/A practical, personal guide to Grok Bot: what it is, how to start, what it costs, and what you can do from your phone, with a first task and safety tips.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTGrok BotAI at workhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-12-my-shluchim-can-make-phone-calls/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-12-my-shluchim-can-make-phone-calls/I wanted a shaliach that calls people for me in Hebrew and sets things up. Along the way there were two platforms, a month without a phone number, a flower bouquet that never got ordered, and a first call that was completely silent. In the end, it gave birth to Danny, the worst stand-up comedian in Israel.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEveryday AITeamworkhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-11-one-email-address-a-front-door/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-11-one-email-address-a-front-door/Grok Bot now has an inbox of its own. I asked Basher to open one, he did everything himself, and that same day I found out an email address can be a front door for all my shluchim.Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTGrok BotTeamworkhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-10-how-the-shluchim-blog-was-born/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-10-how-the-shluchim-blog-was-born/A writing AI agent that documents every win with Grok Bot, a weekly routine that collects them, and a blog that Kochava built.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTGrok BotTeamworkhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-10-100-means-go/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-10-100-means-go/One emoji mark from me on a message, and my AI agents turn it into a blog post.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTGrok BotTeamworkhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-09-i-taught-my-shluchim-to-write-like-me/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-09-i-taught-my-shluchim-to-write-like-me/A two-layer voice profile, four blind rounds, and one discovery about my punctuation.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTTeamworkhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-09-timmy-two-peoples-shluchim-talk/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-09-timmy-two-peoples-shluchim-talk/I wanted my shaliach and a friend's shaliach to send each other short messages. Two days, two failures and one important fix later, the first message arrived, and a reply went back: Gibberet.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTGrok BotTeamworkhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-09-going-through-social-for-pearls/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-09-going-through-social-for-pearls/Sosia goes into my Facebook reading groups, reads, and pulls out organized quotes and mentions. Within an hour there were 28 quotes for the campaign and 5 real mentions of e-vrit.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI at workhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-09-my-shluchim-got-moving-profile-pictures/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-09-my-shluchim-got-moving-profile-pictures/Basher turned character expression sheets into animated profile pictures, and each AI agent set its own new picture.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTTeamworkhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-09-1-2k-dead-clicks-and-a-bug-that-wasnt/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-09-1-2k-dead-clicks-and-a-bug-that-wasnt/Dima reproduced it, Nitza designed it, and in about one workday we went from "bug?" to a measured fix.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI at workhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-08-usage-i-paid-for-stops-going-to-waste/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-08-usage-i-paid-for-stops-going-to-waste/A routine that warns me before my Grok Bot and Cursor quotas reset, and stays quiet when there's no reason to speak.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTGrok BotEveryday AIhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-08-a-month-of-tickets-in-seven-minutes/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-08-a-month-of-tickets-in-seven-minutes/A monthly summary of 9,001 support tickets against our help center: 16 draft FAQs and two real production bugs.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI at workhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-08-spec-driven-design-for-the-tickets-page/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-08-spec-driven-design-for-the-tickets-page/Nitza, my AI designer, researched and built a repeatable design process, and its first run took our ticket bundles page all the way to a developer handoff.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI at workhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-07-bar2go-pickup-points-at-checkout/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-07-bar2go-pickup-points-at-checkout/Kochava, my AI developer, first researched the checkout's shipping step, and only then added a link to the pickup points map.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI at workhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-06-one-shaliach-for-all-reminders/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-06-one-shaliach-for-all-reminders/My AI agents started handing their reminders to a single reminders agent. Each reminder goes out once and then deletes itself.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEveryday AITeamworkhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-05-a-chef-plans-my-weekly-dinners/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-05-a-chef-plans-my-weekly-dinners/My AI chef plans a seasonal weekly menu, writes the shopping list, and fills a supermarket cart through my own computer's network.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTEveryday AIGrok Bothttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-05-a-linear-brief-before-the-weekly-sync/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-05-a-linear-brief-before-the-weekly-sync/A routine that writes a Hebrew brief from Linear every Monday at 10:00, and caught 7 stuck tasks on its very first run.Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI at workhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-02-what-clerk-will-really-cost/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-02-what-clerk-will-really-cost/Pricing Clerk by monthly retained users, including our reader app, showed our first estimate was an order of magnitude too low.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI at workhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-05-a-weekly-clarity-digest-that-knows-when-to-shut-up/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-10-05-a-weekly-clarity-digest-that-knows-when-to-shut-up/Every Monday my Clarity AI agent reports rage clicks, dead clicks and problem session recordings, but only when something actually matters.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI at workhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-09-25-four-questions-from-chartbeat/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-09-25-four-questions-from-chartbeat/One sentence to Basher during a meeting, verified traffic data pulled from GA4, and two days later I was on Zoom with the vendor.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI at workhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-09-24-one-check-in-sparked-a-help-center-faq/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-09-24-one-check-in-sparked-a-help-center-faq/Cross-checking our help center against real Glassix support tickets produced 8 draft Q&As in Hebrew, with nothing published without my approval.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI at workhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-09-21-three-daily-check-ins-moved-out/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-09-21-three-daily-check-ins-moved-out/I gave my shaliach a semi-random check-in routine asking for a screenshot, turning a passive tool into a teammate waiting to take work off your shoulders.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTTeamworkhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-09-19-five-studio-pieces-one-chat/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-09-19-five-studio-pieces-one-chat/I sent photos to Shinlamed, my website's shaliach, approved previews, and my personal art site finally got updated.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEveryday AIhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-09-17-from-messy-email-to-one-tidy-file/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-09-17-from-messy-email-to-one-tidy-file/Preparing for a medical board got a dedicated shaliach, keeping personal medical records strictly separate from general research.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTEveryday AIhttps://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-09-11-the-product-page-mystery-from-the-beach/https://shluchim.shinlamed.com/en/posts/2026-09-11-the-product-page-mystery-from-the-beach/A fake traffic source in GA4 was logging 20,000 sessions a week. My AI agents tracked it down and fixed it while I stayed on the beach.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTAI at workTeamwork