rok Bot landed this week and a surprising number of people have already switched to it. Always-on AI agents, each with their own computer in the cloud, that you talk to like colleagues in Slack.
It's the closest thing yet to a plug and play AI employee. It's also $200 a month minimum, you can't bring your own API key, and once you've built your setup on it you're locked in. So we put it up against Hermes, the open source agent that does most of the same job for a fraction of the price, and worked out who should actually use which.
In this episode we break down:
- What Grok Bot actually does, and why non-technical founders love it
- The $200/month lock-in and why we call it a poisoned gift
- Hermes Bot Mode, the open source alternative (think Webflow vs WordPress)
- Gael's setup where Codex installs and runs Hermes on a VPS so he never touches the server
- Should solopreneurs bother, or stick with Claude Code and Codex
- ChatGPT Computer History, which records everything you do and then tells you what to automate
- The free mystery model beating Fable on coding tests
The tech is good. The terms are the catch.
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