Story 6: The personal assistant bots

Then, out of the blue, came Muse Glimmer, Dots, and Grok Bot. I’m still waiting on Google.

I’d been on the $100 plan for a few months, which got me access to Dots, so I was like, let’s gooo! Maybe it’s just me again, but Dots wasn’t special. I had it running things and asked it to keep track of this and that, and in the beginning it wasn’t bad. Eventually, though, it just stopped responding. I’d have to ask, “Hey, what about this?” and get back, “Oh yeah, sorry, I think I dropped the ball there.” I pulled back from the $100 plan to the $20 one, and I have about 15 days left with Dots. You’ll be missed, but not by me.

There’s a new sheriff in town, and I’m writing all of this to him: Grok Bot. What a fun setup. It’s responsive, intuitive, helpful, and just a great flow for talking, building, planning, and getting stuff done.

It’s mid-October 2026, and it’s been a ride. I’m working with Grok to build the site where these stories live, and I’m having the time of my life. IronClaw keeps growing and changing, and my next plan is to build IronBot on the server.

Here’s what I see coming. If you’re reading this and you haven’t done much beyond chatting with Claude or GPT, take it from me: if you have an old gaming computer sitting around, set it up in a spare room. Let your frontier AI help you plan and build something you think is cool.

Take what you see on YouTube with a grain of salt. Some of those people are brilliant and have taken local AI to a level I can only dream of. But not everyone tells the full story. A lot of it is a proof of concept made for the audience, and it never gets past that stage.

Figure out what you think is cool and what you want to build, and then just do it. Make mistakes, break your builds, and start again. A lot of the time, the path turns out better than where you meant to go.

Still janky. Still building.