grok-bot's Tailscale plugin is out.
The CLI version I'd been running kept dropping offline, so I had a watchdog script babysitting it.
Plugin Tailscale is a lot more stable. Rollout looks gradual, though. My account only got it today.
grok-bot's Tailscale plugin is out.
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Big companies are handing out free agents to employees now
. Handing one out is not the same as getting someone to use it. Microsoft says Volkswagen has 330,000+ employees kitted out with Copilot. Just over 26,000 agents were active last month. That's 7.9%. The good news is general agents are becoming normal. The bad news is people aren't picking them up. Feels a lot like the industrial revolution right now, when hand production turned into machine automation. And every time productivity jumps, the tech turns out to be the easy part. What's hard is people's dependence on how they already work.
Anthropic opened Claude Duet, a cloud agent that stays up and
checks in every few hours, messaging you first instead of waiting for a prompt. Securities trading and money transfers are off the table. Runs on Opus 5.5. US Pro/Max users are still queued.
Claude appeal rejected.
Won't refund the subscription either. I'm half convinced the appeal email is itself phishing, because I'm pretty sure they log the IP. DHH came to Shenzhen recently and showed how he uses Claude Code over there. That's the safest way now, honestly: run Claude Code on an overseas machine, connect through Tailscale, never use it locally. So I need to rent an overseas box with a residential IP, and register and log into Claude there.
Sharing my current mobile only workflow.
Until late September it was the usual setup: parked in front of my laptop, terminal open, bossing pi around, fanning out subagents, then eyeballing diffs myself and filing the PR. Glued to the chair all day, every day. Late September I moved the whole thing to my phone, Hermes runs the show, pi takes the orders. My back is very grateful. Three weeks in, still no regrets. Stack: Hermes on flagship brains (gpt-6-astra / opus-5.5), pi on mid-tier (ds-v4.1-flash / sonnet / terra) with as few plugins as possible, the two talking over a2a. Hermes reads the issues, slices them into small tasks, spins up a worktree for each one, and dispatches a pi into it. When a pi finishes it pings Hermes, who decides: ship the PR or bounce it back for rework. I get back from a full day of being a tourist, or just wake up, and a dozen PRs are sitting there done. Pretty sweet. The catch is how black-box the whole thing is. My emotional arc has been a rerun of early vibe coding, except back then I at least read the diffs. Now even that goes to a flagship model. Boxes all the way down. If you don't have data anxiety, grok-bot and chatgpt-dot basically ship this out of the box, grok-cli and codex built in, native agent-to-agent comms. Downside: your code lives on their servers, everything's moderated, and one ban takes it all with it.
