Grok Bot product lead Roman Ugarte on the two early decisions that made Grok Bot work: "It was two early decisions that at the time definitely did not feel obvious, but in hindsight are critical to what makes Grok Bot work for people." 1. Everything runs in the cloud: "You should never have to think about local and cloud, where are these workflows running, does my computer have to be awake, if I kick it off from my phone does it need to be tethered to my computer back at home. There's so much jank happening right now when people try to conceptualize where this runtime lives. We made a really early decision that this should all be in the cloud. If it's this persistent colleague that has its own computer, it has the same state everywhere you interact with it. This is its own entity and it lives separately from your device." 2. The bot gets its own computer: "There are a bunch of tasks that don't have well supported MCPs and APIs. We as humans don't do our jobs via MCPs and APIs, we use a computer and click on pixels and type in input boxes, and your bot needs those baseline capabilities too." "We're in a really weird moment where you're onboarding these super intelligent new colleagues and asking them to share the same computer you have. It's crazy. If you were onboarding someone to your team and said, you don't have your own laptop, you're going to sit next to me and share this laptop forever and constantly trip over each other, you'll have access to my credentials and I'll have access to yours. There's a good reason that's not the way people operate."