The Engineer Behind Grok Bot

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Cursor engineer Lauren Tan rebuilt Grok Bot from scratch and grew her following from 31,000 to 198,000 in ten weeks.

Grok Bot can now DM users unprompted thanks to a new Proactive Suggestions feature, surprising at least one early tester.

Cursor engineers investigated whether customer data leaked to SpaceX's AI unit during Grok Bot testing, risking a huge trust problem.

A 10-point jump in model intelligence now earns AI labs just 20% more developer traffic, down from nearly 69% in late 2025.

A new training method cut a model's wrong answers on hard math from 79.1% to 8.9% by teaching it to admit uncertainty.

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