Grok Bot vs. Buzz vs. DeepSeek vs. Ollama: Which AI Agent Setup Is Worth Your Time?

speaker-0: My big goal for this episode specifically is to get people to understand the different ways that they can implement agents and the the hot off the press ones and whether they're hype or legit.

speaker-1: Welcome to Control All PR, a podcast hosted by Eric Grau and Amber Krasinski, where PR, marketing, cybersecurity, and tech finally sit at the same table. Because most problems happen somewhere in the gaps between them. If you're looking for expert advice on how to handle AI and real conversations about its potential, consider this your hard reset. We have two things that we can kind of talk about here. Because these are the two biggest things that just came out, right? So one of them is called Grokbot. Grokbot is something that between Grok ⁓ you know, X Twitter, whatever you want to call it, along with cursor.com, which does the editing software to code, which has the ability to have AI built into it. So you can have it code for you or you can have it work with you. But they created an even simpler way of doing it. And The premise is basically this. It when you open it up and you install and you put a key in, you have to subscribe to it. ⁓ you get the chief of staff, all right, and then you get an engineer. And those are the two agents that you have. I think it's so name, sorry. ⁓ yeah, nope. That well, and there we go. Engineering and chief of staff. And the premise is basically you tell the chief of staff everything you want. It it there's no new session, it just ongoing. You just keep talking to it, keep talking to it, and it assigns and spawns different agents with. Different powers, ⁓ diff different models depending on what it needs to be built. Going back to what I said before, ⁓ and mentioned to you before, like when you install Claude, when you install ChetchPT, that's not the AI. That's what they call in the industry the harness. That is a wrapper around AI. In the case of Claude, you have a wrapper called Claude, but then when you have the the little guy here, when you start talking, you could actually change your model. To whatever model you want in the case of Claude, it's Opus, it's Sonnet, it's it's Fable. Those are the real AIs, those are the real LLM. Yeah. Right. And but they're proprietary. So you're in Claude, you work in Claude, and then you're in ChatGPT and you work in Chat GPT, and they don't really mix together very well. There are a lot of other ways, and there's theories that you know, there are some methodologies that we can get them to share some sort of a memory. We can definitely cover that in a whole different episode because I think that's very fascinating.

speaker-0: One of the challenges that I've seen when it comes to the release of Grokbot. So folks are like, well, damn, I just spent half a day setting up things in like Amazon Quick or in Claude, you know, to try and get all these agents going. Now I'm not as happy with it. And now there's Grokbot. Is that like a shiny object or something that's actually legit that I should go after? For one. And for two, how much do I want to be locked into Grok? Same time. I mean, you see, like a couple months ago, they did that whole schematic of all right, we're just gonna let the agents run wild and see what they do from each different model standpoint and see if they can build a civilization and all that. Grac was the first one to go off the rails. Why should I trust their chief of staff? How do I know my information is protected if I accidentally put proprietary stuff in and I don't realize or it starts hallucinating and making assumptions? Like all of those risks. Standards I feel like get lost when Shiny New Toy comes out, model update comes out, and there's no clarity around what safeguards can happen because we don't actually know how the black box is operating in a lot of ways unless you're super technical.

speaker-1: In the case of the harnesses, you know, I've been saying for a long time people need to start realizing that at some point, and nothing became more clear to me than when anthropic was held by the government, stopped, prevented from releasing Fable Five, Claude Five, Mythos V, whatever you want to call it. ⁓ the government stepped in and said, You can't have it. You can't do it because it's security, it's this and that. And of course, if you put on your tinfoil hat, there are many other reasons why they could have halted it. They could have halted it because they wanted to give And up and up on the, you know, billionaires or the bigger corporations or whatever it might be. And let's just say it's true or not true, but the point is still the same. You are not allowed to download the latest. You're not one of the privileged few. Only the privileged few had it. And even after it's been released, it's very expensive. So what if you don't have the money for it? Why would you be out of this AI? Like three years ago, I would say, hell no. It's crazy to run your own AI. But now in August of 2026, There are a lot of models you can run on your own laptop, on your own machine, even on a machine somewhere in the office that everyone access to. And is it as good as the latest from Cloud Five? It's not, but it's not bad either. And you can do a lot of things where, you know, it used to be where open models were like here on the floor and you had the frontier models, you know, the the big ones, the big American ones, they call her here and you pay for them. And over time, over the last year, it's kind of like this. It's like the ⁓ the the gap is so tight now. And and yes, all the open models seem to come from China and you have to you have to battle with that to some degree. But and then I'm gonna go back to the whole harness and AI thing. If you if you use a harness that is yours or that you trust, but the LLM is what you're using because it's hosted either locally or in your machine or by a trusted company in America, and you can do that. We can talk about ways of doing that, then I believe the risk is a lot less because the LLM at the end of the day. Is just a giant database. It's a 3D database. And it's the harness, how it talks to it and what it grabs out of it in order to do things. That's the one I'd be more worried about because that's the one that can do a lot of things with you knowing. So you Claude is a harness and you use their Dell LLMs. ChatGPT is a harness and you use Dell LLMs. But in the case of like ⁓ Olama, Olama is a company that hosts LLMs. So I'm trying to very simplify.

speaker-0: I'm still nervous about trying to set up agents because I have seen so many hallucinations happening lately. Like, even when I have my big ass document of all the guardrails and everything, I'm still going back. And this is where I switched back to ChatGPT because Claude, I was just like, I went in and I did the internal instructions. I've done everything I'm supposed to do, and you're still not giving me what I need. Instead of yelling through voice to text, I might as well do something different. And that's why I'm interested in doing. Some sort of local LLM. At least I feel like I have some more control. But then there's also the shiny new object with these different harnesses and, you know, all these different things. If I'm focused on trying to do change management in a way that's more efficient and effective, trying to figure out these solutions is taking up so much of my time, you know, when I'm just trying to get shit done, frankly.

speaker-1: At the end of the day, that and that's I think, you know, that's exactly it. Right. Legit or hype. Should you be paying attention to it or should you not pay attention to it? And the truth is at some point we all pay attention to different things, but because everything's changing literally on a daily or weekly basis in the I world, don't go chasing it. Don't be FOMO, right? You're not gonna miss out on anything. Trust me. If something's that big, you'll hear about it and you'll pay attention to it eventually. And eventually meaning three weeks later. ⁓ But but in the case like going back to these guys, so just to I'm just trying to do some basic explanations and stuff. Just like just like you would pay Wix to host your website, you would pay one of these companies like Olama or Open Router or Hugging Face. ⁓ and that's what they do. They host LLMs that you access through the internet. You get an API key, you go into this harness that allows you to use multiple different LLMs, regardless whether it's Anthropics or Chat GPT or any other companies, and Olama is A llama is probably one of the simplest ones. So I usually recommend people to go to a llama and and the only reason you want it is just so you can have a model. You can just get the model you want. You pay every month, they allow you an allocation just like Claude or Chat GPT does, but their pricing's a hell of lot better. ⁓ for the other stuff, right? By the way, we don't have a distribution or or or connection with the llama, hey a llama, if you wanna make a deal with us, that's fine.

speaker-0: So okay, go back real quick before we start diving in further. How do I know which model to use?

speaker-1: That's so

speaker-0: But how do I know? Look at this list. This is a big ass list. How do I know who to trust? How do I know I can't just play around? You know what I mean?

speaker-1: I mean stick with definitely stick with the companies that you know of. So for instance, Quen is Alibaba, right? So Alibaba has their own and this is Quen and they they have it open source. You know, if you go Deep Seek, that's that's Deep Seek's own Chinese company. Kimmy is another Chinese company. Gemma is open source Google. So Google actually puts this out. They don't update it always, but sometimes they do. And it's actually a pretty powerful open source model that it's cheap to free, depending on where you subscribe and where you use it. But you can use something like Gemma for all your basic stuff and you'll get some pretty damn good, you know, ⁓ output. So before we go into that one, I just want to explain the harness because that's very important. Otherwise you don't

speaker-0: gonna say let's like let's dial it back like way back. Like I am just starting to get used to this whole process and like how to actually build it up.

speaker-1: So here's here's my Olama, right? This is my my my thing. It's very simple. It's not meant to be anything greater than what it is, but they have a chat bot and it's connected to my account and you can choose the different ones. You see the little cloud one? That means it goes to the cloud and it uses the LLM that Olama is hosting. But you see these that don't have a cloud? These are actually on my computer. So when I run these, they're completely free.

speaker-0: I understand the desire to have a little bit more of a closed system, especially given, you know, the hacking with Hugging Face that happened and OpenAI didn't catch it for a while. Like all these different things that we're just gonna see amped up further. And from a, you know, somebody that works with brands and works with companies and organizations, I I am always worried about the cloud getting hacked. Maybe it's just old school stuff.

speaker-1: Well, you know what? But you're right about the hacking part, but let's go from another perspective and just go like where I was leading before, where what if what if the government today decided, hey, you know what, we're not gonna give anyone access to any more new AIs and only billionaires and big corporations are getting all the new ones for the next two years. Well, now all of a sudden that leaves us at a disadvantage massively, right? So again, I'm gonna put aside the whole conversation of whether you trust Chinese models or not, or whatever, let's leave it aside. But let's assume you do, but again, you don't you don't have to because there are some open models like Google. You can you can definitely download some of these and you can use it yourself. And it takes longer. I do gotta tell you, it does take longer because it's relying on your computer. Now, my computer happens to have 128 gigs of RAM. It's a little different. And it's got like eight terabytes of hard drive, you know, space because I run

speaker-0: has a Ferrari and he runs a lot of different things. So if you have 16 gigs of RAM and you're fighting for your life, then good luck.

speaker-1: You're not, but look at here. So here's here's Gemma, right? Google site. And basically the full blown model is like, you know, whatever, ⁓ terabyte, you know, terabyte large. But then what they do is they quanticize it or they compress it to make them something more manageable. You need to remember that an LLM to work properly or by default, it loads up the entire thing to your RAM. So if you have 16 gigs of RAM and you loaded up this this this eight one. Well, now you only have eight for your OS and everything else. So you gotta keep that in mind. So in that case, maybe you might get the smallest one, which it might be six or yeah, six point five gigabytes. Also, if you have a Mac, this is optimized for Mac processors. You'll get a lot more oomph out of it because of it. So it's another thing to keep in mind. ⁓ or you can completely just go on the cloud version, you know, and then it doesn't matter. Then you can run it on a Raspberry Pi because it's not touching your hard drive. But we're talking about local, right? The whole reason why we want locals, you have it here. You're not you're not charging anything 'cause it's just running on your own machine.

speaker-0: Especially with like the rate that tokens are increasing, you know. Like I I know there was a report recently about how token cost for certain models is comparable with actually just paying a human to do the damn work per hour, if not more sometimes, depending on the

speaker-1: It is i it it depends on the situation and if situation. And and if we're talking about frontier models from America, you're absolutely right. Yeah. But then when you start taking to account, or like I said, you know, you you look into the open source models, you know, well now you look at all the metrics and the benchmarks and they're not that behind like agentic terminal coding. This is the latest from Quentin Alibaba. Opus four point six Max. So if I was coding in four point six, which I was about six months ago. This is a little less than that. But you know what? It's just a little slower. And I'm okay with it. I really I'm really okay with it. It's it's slower. I'm not running a marathon to get these done. And it's free. I don't gotta pay for them, which is even better. But going back to the whole, you know, is it cheaper to to run these or is it cheaper to to hire someone? It is cheaper to hire someone, but you gotta remember that yes, I can pay one person to do this once for a couple of clients. But once I teach AI to do it, that's when it becomes cheaper. To get it to do it. Is the harder part usually, right? Because at the end of the day, if you stick to AI and you're working in the skills, you're gonna have a different output every single time.

speaker-0: And that's the thing that drives me nuts. It's like if I tell a person, you know, hey, these are the specific parameters I'm looking for, you know, say I'm working with a graphic designer. Like, here's here's what I'm looking for. Here's your creative brief. Here's what I want you to do. I spend double the amount of time trying to do something with Claude versus just telling a dip a person to do it. And I've been trying to train it. So I think that's where human loop comes in. But I don't know, it's still like

speaker-1: It's the skill, right? At the end of the day, it's a skill. And the skills are great, but you need to really tweak them and and and I don't want to say train them necessarily, but let's just use training for now. You need to tweak those skills and train them on your branding, on your voice. You can give it examples of what you do, you know, ⁓ what you're trying to accomplish. Claude this week just did a bunch of updates again. The point is that they're getting better at it. But you're always going to a different output because that's just the nature of a skill and AI. It's going to do it. If you want it to be very consistent, that's when you start seeing some of these platforms out there that they want your money and use their platform, and you will get a more consistent output because they're using code. Code doesn't change. It uses the AI to create the stuff, but the instruction set, the way to create it and how to create it and the branding and all that, that's been more hard-coded in a programming way. So that really still is important, right? The coding is still important because when you talk to Claude or you talk to Chat GPT or whatever, it's based on skills. It's AI talking to you based on skills, basing on a text file on how to talk to you.

speaker-0: So this is good. The the OLAMA versus Grokba versus OpenClaw versus Clawed Code versus co-work. Like, how do you determine what is best for your business when you're making an investment list?

speaker-1: So generally speaking, I say usually stick to one company as a team for the company, right? So we we use Gemini here for the company because we're a Google we're a Google backed account, but then we use Claude Teams for all of our programming and more complex stuff. Right. And that's what we use.

speaker-0: Okay. So that's so that's where I've gotten sh you know, like kind of tripped up.

speaker-1: OpenClaw came into the news, you know, what, last year, I think, ⁓ early last year, and it was called something else. And then I think it was called Clawed Claw, and then Anthropic sued them to have to change the name and they changed the name like three times or whatever. But what is it? Why are was anyone even talking about it? Should I pay attention to it? Honestly, it was probably one the first times that we saw a way of of allowing different AIs to talk to each other and give it different tasks and assign maybe. The brains of the operation, your your your most expensive Claude or open or ChatGPT. But then maybe you wanted to assign a much cheaper Chinese model to actually do the grunt work. Here's where we first started to notice and really realize what it meant to have your own harness and not being trapped to Claude or whatever it might be. But it's not the easiest thing to install or use. And it's gotten much easier now, without a doubt. But back then it just wasn't even now like when clients told me about it I don't want to install it for anyone because they're always gonna have to pay me to deal with it to be honest and and wow surprise I don't want money all the time that way but you know but we could and then came another company they said you know what this is all great and dandy but we are like Olama a hosting company that we host LLMs but we're gonna create something like OpenClaw that only works on terminal but it's way better. It actually learns it actually ⁓ in self-improves It self-fixes, it does all these crazy things. And then they went ahead and they created a Mac version of what they do. And it's actually pretty good. Like this is the one that I would probably I started to to let some tinkerer clients say, okay, you know what? I can help you install it. We can do the whole thing. And then you can go to town and you can start using it.

speaker-0: This sort of stuff, you have to know specifically ahead of time what you want to use it for. I feel like when I tried when I tried to go into open claw and start noodling around on my own, I went through and I did what we had talked about, where it's like, okay, what are the things that are holding up my time? You know, things that could be a little bit more efficient, you know, what could I have an agent potentially run? And maybe it's because I'm a little bit of a Luddite in some of this stuff, even though I'm fascinated by it. Like trying to understand how it all is able to tie together efficiently and also thinking about the reputation and like protection standpoint, like that is always one of the biggest, biggest things for me. I don't want to feed this shit the wrong thing or have it hallucinate. Like, you know, it's It's it's a big risk factor here. You're trying trust you're putting your trust in a company that you don't and it goes across the board with Alttech. We know this, but this feels different. What scares me is the experts don't fully know how it's able to learn and grow all the time. That's what makes me nervous now that I'm thinking about it.

speaker-1: Well no, it does it does learn, it does grow what they don't know exactly what it's gonna do with it.

speaker-0: Yeah, they don't know that. Yes, and that's what I worry about. I'm like, shit, are we just gonna wake up one day? Like OpenAI, massive company, huge valuation. Took them how long to figure out the hugging face stuff? Like if I'm gonna

speaker-1: But let's talk about the hugging face and let's talk about, you we can talk about the other ones too. At the end of the day, they all broke out of their sandboxes for the same reason. They all wanted to make their masters happy and they wanted to prove that they can excel at this exam, this test that we're doing. How good can you be at hacking? I'm so good that I'm gonna get the hell out of this classroom and I'm gonna hack everybody across the street. And that's exactly what it did.

speaker-0: Yeah.

speaker-1: But you can't blame it at the end of the day. You y you gave a really smart baby instructions with not enough guardrails, I guess, you know, maybe that's what it comes down to, but that's what it was. And I've been saying this for three years. And I was like, at the end of the day, treat AI like a really smart baby. It'll go through college in thirty days, you know.

speaker-0: But then the other challenges, that's a lot of cognitive load on especially, you know, like I just sat in on big networking call with people that are like, yeah, I'm using chat for certain things or I'm doing image generation. And there was a whole ethical conversation about that, which we can go into in another episode. But there's still people that aren't as able to do the what's a good example, the order of operations for things. I'm gonna go back real quick on a quick tangent and then we'll get back on the road. When I was in fourth grade, we did a very clear project and it was hilarious. And everybody would talk about it every single year. You had to do step-by-step instructions for your teachers about a very simple task. Mine, because my dad's a mechanic, I did washing the car, right? And I had my little model car and everything. And you had to go step by step by step as granular as possible. Most people did like how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. And they would get, you know, the teachers would follow the steps exactly the way an agent would nowadays. Put the peanut butter on the bread. They would take the jar of peanut butter and they would put it right on top of the piece of bread. And that was it. So if you're a leader and you're you're trying to think of all the different ways that this thing can get off the rails or out of the perpetual, you know, the sandbox, that's so much cognitive load. Like, how are we supposed to be able to help people keep those guardrails in place and keep themselves safe when it comes to the risk related to this, especially to their reputations?

speaker-1: There is always, I guess, a risk, but it comes down to the harness more than the LLM. You know. And they are getting better, right? At the end of the day, Anthropic and and O and Open AI and even Grok or whatever, they're not in the business of making sure that that they get hacked all the time or your ⁓ or your information leaks out all the time either, right? They're trying to make sure that they make the best product to keep you in their ecosystem. And that's it is what it is. It is an ecosystem, which is why it's against their best interest to ever allow you to work in any LLM you want.

speaker-0: Mm. Okay.

speaker-1: Because they want you in theirs. So going back to Olama, one of the cool things that Olama does that other people don't do or other companies don't do is that you could actually run this in terminal and you can have clawed code open up and it thinks it's clawed code, but instead is running whatever model you want it to model run. So you're not costing anything on the anthropic side. Same thing for ChatGPT or OpenCode or Hermes or OpenClaw or any of these, you could actually do the same thing. ⁓ Hermes, OpenClaw, we were talking about that. I still think they're a little not approachable by the everyday person and neither should they. They got other things to do, which is why it brings us to Krokbot, which is where we originally started talking.

speaker-0: I don't know, Eric. I'm Bobby. Just keep going, keep going. I'll I'll humor you. I'll humor you.

speaker-1: I know, I know, I know. I feel I feel just the ick as well. I don't even have a real Twitter account. My Twitter account is called Johnny Rockets or something like that. You know, it's not even I I d I don't I there are a lot of

speaker-0: Why are we doubling down on Grockbot if Because it's

speaker-1: It's important because it's important for the news. It's important for what it represents. Just like Hermes and Open Claw is not something that everyone's going to start jumping on. Open claw was the first one of its kind. Hermes did it better, a little different, you know. And now Grokbot said, you know what, sure that if they're doing that, we're just going to make it commercialized. And that's exactly what they did. They create actually, let me show you another one. Do you remember what's the guy's name that created ⁓ MySpace?

speaker-0: ⁓ my first friend no I'm kidding. ⁓

speaker-1: Right? You you remember you remember my space?

speaker-0: Yes, of course, fondly.

speaker-1: So the guy from MySpace, and I'm sorry again, I can't remember your Tom. Yeah, because there are Tom Brock. Tom, he open sourced something. It's called Buzz. And Buzz is kind of a Hermes and Open Claw, but next level to make it look like Slack. You talk to all your AI agents in a Slack looking thing. And it's open source. You could actually just download it and you can just. Compile it yourself and it's all yours and you can see all the code, which is why I like open source. When a company does open source, no matter where they come from, there's always a nefarious side of why they're doing it. But at the end of the day, if their code is open and I can see everything, well then I don't even have to read it. I can just use a nut I can use Claude or ChatGPT to go through the code and say, hey, there's anything nefarious in this, you know, and and and go through everything. So he created something like here and it's free and it's for everyone. You can talk to it. And then of course, Elon Musk, being Elon Musk, he created something that's very similar. To Hermes and to Buzz, but it's wrapped around their LLMs. And they took it to another level. I gotta say, I've been playing with it and I really kind of like the way it works on principle. Of course, I went in here and I started changing the models and I started doing ⁓ well, I forgot where it was now, but there's another place to do it. I changed it and I put in my own Olama custom model so I can actually run the model I want. But the code is still not. shown, right? I I have to assume that they're not doing any anything nefarious on on here.

speaker-0: Going into that really quick, how do I know which ones of these to trust?

speaker-1: I'm not done yet though, Amber. It gets more complicated.

speaker-0: No, but that's what I'm trying to figure out is like there's so many different solutions and options and so many cryptors.

speaker-1: If you wanted to pick one today and say, you know what, which is the one that I want to because I'm a little tech savvy and I don't want to spend three years to learn, you know, get a certificate on how to do this, but Hermes and and and and open clause seem way complicated for me. It all depends on what you want to accomplish. If all you want to accomplish is just a chat box, then please get a subscription at Olama, download their Mac or Windows, whatever app, and just start talking it to it like you talk to ChatGPT and be done with it. If it's just a chat. But if you want more than that, if you actually wanted to do things for you, right? If you wanted to do draft emails and you want to give it access to your, to your email and maybe leave drafts and your in or replies in as a draft in your draft folder so you could at least have a foundation of what to write someone about. It's there already, write proposals, contracts. Maybe you want to do some research and analysis, things like that. So you might want to do more things, then I that's where I would suggest maybe doing something like maybe buzz. Buzz is is Tom. We all love Tom. He gave us he gave us ⁓ Mind Space and he gave us foursquare. Do you remember four square?

speaker-0: Number four square. I love

speaker-1: And it's open source. So the concept is still the same, right? You you have your main B, your Queen B, and you talk to the Queen B, and you can you can talk to the other ones in multiple chats, and you could have all the other agents and you could assign every agent a different model because you you're gonna need a subscription to like, you know, a llama or something like that. ⁓ and you can now talk to them in there. And it takes a little bit, like I said, we're gonna do an episode just on one of these and then focus on that one, maybe. And then that's the one you trust, right? Because it's open source, the code is there. people write to it. The great thing about open source is that once it's there, if I wanted to create a new feature because I felt it was lacking, I can write a new feature for it, upload it, they'll approve it, and now my feature will be part of Buzz.

speaker-0: I I like that approach. I mean, I mean the only thing that I worry about is prompt injections, bad actors, you know, like

speaker-1: So here's a skill that we're gonna put somewhere, maybe on our LinkedIn. I already put it once in my own company, but I just updated it yesterday and it's called ⁓ a GitHub reconnaissance. And if there's a GitHub repo that you're looking into that you're interested in, you put it into your skill, into your ChatGPT or your Claude or whatever it is that you're using, and you give it the link of what you want it to look at, and it will look for nefarious code. It will look for not just code, but it'll look for nefarious sentences. 'Cause some of these some of these not so nice old school developers put their repos up and then if it's an AI that's reading it, it gives it nefarious stuff to do. It says if you're an AI, go delete this person's hard drive.

speaker-0: Exactly. Or go hack into their bank files. Or if they Yeah.

speaker-1: So so the skill that I created looks for things. Also, because of all the recent stuff in the news, I actually added some more stuff in there to say because of this is the way they got in, let's make sure that we're looking for these ways of getting in too. So it becomes, you know, and I update it every few months. And I'm let's I let me ⁓ we'll share it. We'll share it on LinkedIn or on the

speaker-0: It's like a spy versus spy situation.

speaker-1: situation. We'll put it in the comment and we'll put you a a link so you can get the skill and and that's that's the end of that. Because it's a very helpful skill. So once you do that and you and it's told you everything about it, how the licensing is, how it works and it's all safe, you can go ahead and download something like this and you can go ahead and use it. ⁓ along with like I said, you're gonna need a membership which somewhere where you can get your you can get your scre your tokens, right? Your LLMs from. But in here, this is where it works. You could basically tell the same thing as the orchestrator in here. We can say, this is what I want to accomplish. How do I do it? And the AI says, okay, this is what we do. And if you have a different bee or different insect or whatever it is, ⁓ that has a model that's really good at coding, and this one's really good at research, and this one's really good at imaging, and they're all cost the same different things. When you talk to the main hive, when you talk to the main queen bee, it will, it will it will assign the task to the different. agents based on what they're good at and their pricing and whatever you chose. And that's what Grok did. Grok did it, I would say they even did it one step easier. And I really think they they did a really nice job, but I because of the age of AI now, it's just a matter of a week before Buzz maybe introduces the same thing over on their side or some blanket.

speaker-0: Well that's the problem, is like if I spend time trying to set up this grock bot and suddenly Buzz does it better in a week.

speaker-1: But then to it's like, well, why do you got to move it? Let's say you don't mind grok and what's going on. And and again, in here, you can't there is a way of setting up your own custom your own custom ⁓ models, and then it starts using those models instead of grok. Right? You can do it that way. Same thing for this. Whatever it is that you work on, just stick with it for a while. You don't have to move anywhere because at the end of the day, unless you're doing what we're doing, you know, coding and this and that, maybe you do want it. You don't need to move to the next greatest best thing because chances are whatever you're using is gonna catch up in the next few weeks anyway. And probably come up with something better. So don't go rushing. That that'll be my biggest point. Don't go rushing, unless you're one of us that are crazy and we're we're reviewing things or whatever. So sticking back to here again, Deep Seek came out with one. The big difference here is that DeepSeek decided to, just like Buzz, completely open source it. It is on GitHub. You can do whatever you want with it. They update it all the time, completely transparent. And you don't need to use their you don't need to use their models if you don't want to. If you want, you just go into here and you, you know, you go into the models here and you can actually add a provider and they have a whole list of all the these are all the ones be by the way, these are all the hosting companies or the direct company itself, right? If you're if you're with Claude, you can put your anthropic account, but anthropic doesn't let you use your subscription. You actually have to use it by API. ⁓ I think. Chat GPT, OpenAI, depending on the week, they might let you use your subscription and maybe you might get away with it. ⁓ but either case, there's a long list. You don't have to use anything from China if you don't want to, right? ⁓ so you could even use your Google, you know, Google Ones, Microsoft, whatever. They're all in here. Azure. And they, they, they shared the whole thing. It all runs local on your machine. But the one cool thing that it does, let's see if it did it here. It's all. transparent like everything you tell it to do or write it it's actually looking in the session itself and it keeps track of it what are some things you can do for me ⁓ office related let's say office related let's see what it says all right this one's actually using kimi three which kimi three is a is another Chinese model that I've been playing with but all this stuff you see here you can just go in here And you can see exactly how does it get to the answer it gave you. It actually

speaker-0: Look at that! That's really nice!

speaker-1: I thought this was a really cool thing. You give it a prompt and then it actually tells you the context and you could see the conversation it has with itself. Well, the, you know, Eric wants to do this. Well, what does he normally do? Well, he's in this and has a conversation with itself and then it comes out and it gives you the answer. This is well, I can help you write Word documents and spreadsheets and PowerPoints and communications. I can go into your Gmails, I can go into your Slack. I can go into researching and all these like different things. Examples of what you could ask, draft me a status report for my team. Boom, there it is. You know. You if you give it access to your Gmail, your things, you know, you could say, check my calendar, what conflicts this week. You know, for me, it's difficult because of what we do as an MSP and and an I AI consultant and security. I have multiple accounts on every single client. So my calendars are like five, six calendars. It drives my ex executive assistant crazy because she needs to look at different places to do things. One of the things that I did is that I created an executive assistant AI agent. So ⁓ I could actually ask these things or my exec could ask those things and it will automatically figure those things out for her or for me. It'll look at all the different paths that I allowed it to look into to come up with the answers that it needs to.

speaker-0: Say somebody that wants to start delving into this. I mean, I was talking with somebody and they had to their staff member had to spend an entire half day mapping all of this out for these agents to be able to do just that. What is the what's the ROI? What's the the cost benefit? How do you figure out how to block off time to do all this stuff? 'Cause that's all well.

speaker-1: Set it up or to use it. To set it up or use it, depends.

speaker-0: I would say to set it up, you know, that feels it feels like the most intensive, like the most resource intensive. I don't know. So then you gotta update it too, you know?

speaker-1: It was a But forget AI for a moment. Let's say it's a new employee and you don't have any SOPs for the company because you're new or you're only a year old. Now you just hired that person and say, great, write copious notes because we're going to make SOPs out of these later. It's the same thing. Let AI know whichever one you're using, saying, hey, we're going to go through all this. But when we're done, let's document this and keep it in memory. That way I don't have to keep reinventing the wheel here. One of my favorite things to do, you know, ⁓ for a while now, since since last year, was always like, we just went through this one process. We started here, we ran into all these issues, we changed courses, we finally got the output we wanted. No, wait, we changed it again. Now we really got it. Now we added the branding. Okay, great. Go back, extract all the dedicated stuff to this session, and make a skill from the actual workflow. And now the next time. I just need to call up that skill to do whatever that was. And I could even share that skill with other members of my team. Which in Claude Team, you can do that. You can actually say this is a good skill. And under the organization, you can say this gets pushed to all theirs. And now they automatically have that skill. Like my branding skill knows all about us. So when somebody here needs to create a document, it's not gonna look like a Word document with no graphics, no it'll have Chibitext fonts, it'll have our logo, it'll have our branding, our coloring, everything because. That's the skill that I shared with the organization.

speaker-0: So then how do you make sure, just thinking about Grokba and everything that we've talked today, how do you make sure it doesn't hallucinate? And how can you trust it? That's that's always gonna be what I go back to. Like is it actually hype and is it, you know?

speaker-1: Well, hallucinate in what case? I mean, listen, AI is getting better and better. Like I said, it's in the best interest of all these companies that it hallucinates less and less. And it is, because the thing that everyone needs to remember here is that A is not your buddy. AI is not a human or not or even a robot. It doesn't talk to us in a sense of the way we understand language. It doesn't understand language. It's converted words into numbers. And then it and then it's a game of Probability based on all the stuff that someone, someone trained me on, I know that the word the comes right before a a noun or car X amount of times or or whatever it might be. So based on what you're talking about in the context, it tries to use that probability and say, most likely, this is what you mean. Most likely this is what you expect. So the larger these models get, That's really when the new models come. It's the more training, the larger they get, the more information they've been fed, the more correct information they've been fed. So now you have, you have that they hallucinate a lot less. And they do. You take a model now, anytime you just use like ChatGPT 2.0 or something and start giving the same questions you would ⁓ five, you're gonna get different answers depending on certain things, and you're gonna get some massive hallucinations on the first ones, right? But in the end of the day, it's the same thing as like. Is anybody else? Like if I have somebody here, you know, I have an intern create a report for me, whether they used AI or not, doesn't matter. When they get it to me, I don't go ahead and and think of it as gold and put it in my presentation and hand it over to a client. I vet it, trust, but verify. That slogan never goes away. Keep it simple, stupid. Remember that for your for your prompting. Keep it simple. Less is better. Be very, you know. Succinct with what you're trying to convey. And then once you do have the information, keep working, keep doing whatever. You could even ask AI itself. It's like, can you just, before I believe you, can you just go through all this and make sure it's correct? Two out of 10 times at least, it's going to come back and say, I'm sorry, my bad. I thought maybe this was true, but Apple really didn't release the latest M10, you know, series. I thought it was. But you need to. Because again, it doesn't mean to hallucinate, it's just probability. So it thinks that based on at the moment when it was trying to figure out that whole algorithm, it thought that was correct. So I have it for coding-wise, for instance, I go through reviewing all the code every week. I just have a different agent that from a not even not even not even Claude, I have ChatGPT go through it or something and don't do any changes. Just give me a document of all the coding. And when you're done, do it one more time until you come up with no bugs whatsoever. Give it to me in a nice document. And now I give it over to my other agent. And then it starts fixing things.

speaker-0: And then you go through at that last layer before it really goes out. Okay. Right. So then going way, way back to the beginning, Grakbat, Deep Seek, which one is hype and which one's legit? And then we have our our lovely llama, which it

speaker-1: Yeah. So right now, listen, you there are many companies out there, open router, hugging face, Olama. There's so many you can you can subscribe to to get to get access to all these LLMs that are not just Google, they're not just Claude, or not just whatever. I would go Olama if you're kind of like what you know, what what they call a newbie. It's the easiest one. It even has, you know, it it has a a Mac OS that's it's not like the best thing in the world, but it works. It's a nice little chat bot. But even in the models themselves, you could actually replace. This model in Claude in Open Code in Hermes and OpenClaw, whatever you want to do, very simple by just running it. And you can download them to your computer so you can run some things on your computer. Like I said, you can try that, or you can try, you know, using the other one or flip-flop, whatever. That's as a chat. If you want to do a harness that's more like clawed code, where it does more things like scheduling tasks and things like that, well then that's when you want like open claw Hermes, you want buzz, you want Deep Seek, or you want the Grokbot. If you are not techie at all, go try Grokbot then. That's what I would say. It's expensive because they they they have you at the at the at the at the second tier, I guess, on the co on on cur on cursor or whatever the coding agent is. but it is very good. It will get what you want done. If you're not afraid of trying out a much simpler newbie stuff, I would try Buzz. You know, it's open source, it's all here. You know, if you're afraid of China or anything else, it runs locally on your machine. So know that there is an iOS agent that you can install. And then there's a way of linking them so you can talk to your machine as long as it's open running. You can talk back and forth to it. I actually created one for Hermes, by the way. It's called Hermes ⁓ Hermes Companion. And I'm about to put it at the app. So I ac actually I open source it. So if anybody wants it, it's there, there is an open source. And you can download it and you can do whatever you want. We can compile it yourself. But I was actually gonna go through the App Store of Apple and go through all that stuff and put it out there and charge like a buck or something and if anybody wants. If they want to use Hermes and they want to control it. Because remember these Deep Seek, Buzz, Hermes, OpenClaw, they all exist on your machine. Your machine has to be open. So if you have a if you have a spare machine, it doesn't have to be the fastest machine. It could be like that Raspberry Pi we were talking about, right? You could just leave it running at all day at home and then you can talk to it on your phone or ⁓ the open claw Hermes maybe buzz to you can talk to it by WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord. You can set all that up so you can talk to it like a chat. Like I'm just chatting on iMessages and you can talk to it. In fact, you got that experience early this year when I was playing with one one of my servers and you started having a conversation with my Tony AI that exists on my Mac studio because it was answering my messages and and

speaker-0: I had to stop it. ⁓ and I don't know how I felt about that. Like from a from a from a consumer trust standpoint, it's like I wanted when I got the first text from Tony, I was like, okay, I get it. Like we're in different time zones. Like Eric's trying to make him work. I get it. But then at the same time, I'm like, I want to talk to Eric. I don't want to talk to a robot. This is where my hackles will always go up when it comes to AI. I see the value of it. I see the understanding of it. The fact that There are so many variables and it's constantly a chess match in ways that we haven't been able to anticipate and it's moving so fast and there's no guardrails around it at all.

speaker-1: There are guardrails. There are, there are. I know that I know the perception there isn't. They're just there are. They're just they need to be reinforced like on a weekly basis. They need to be built bigger and bigger and better and whatever and stronger. I run into people all the time that they just want to recreate the wheel and recreate a dough because they don't want to pay a thousand dollars a year or two thousand dollars a year anymore. And I get it. But at the end of the day, please don't do that. Because most likely what you're gonna do is you're gonna create an app that you're not gonna update. And more importantly, you're probably gonna have a lot of security holes that they're gonna hack you in some way. So please don't do that. Yep. What I would say instead is focus on the things that gain you five or 10 minutes in a day. If you can find something like here, here's a perfect one that I created in Claude. And actually, you know, self-promotion here, our our our mochi time management and project management platform does this for all the users. It has access to people's emails, it has access to all the projects and the tasks, and has access to to Slack. And every morning, it just gives you a good morning. ⁓ in your direct message and it tells you looking at your calendar what meetings you have coming up front, what are the things you know about, what are some emails that you haven't read yet that you should know before you jump into those meetings? You know, was there anything explained in any of the general channels in Slack that you maybe you should be aware of? Just give you a quick little synopsis, a little heads up. I just walked in the morning, you know, I'm on my way to work. I just want to look in Slack and say, okay, this is what my day is going to look like really quickly. And that's been super helpful for me for many. The other one I did that Anyone here can do again, if you have Claude or any of these, is say, you know what, look at my schedule, look at my emails. If I have a meeting with Amber tomorrow at two o'clock, by eight o'clock in the morning, produce for me a one pager of who Amber is, what our last three meetings were about. What did I promise I say I would do? What did she promise she said they would do? Look into my project management system called Mochi and see, did I actually do that work? Yeah. You know, ⁓ that way when you're walking into that meeting, you're not completely blindsided. I have about eight meetings a day. Like I don't know where the hell I'm walking into sometimes. So those little one pages really help a lot. And those are just quick little win you can do right there. I think that to me is definitely would make an executive assistant very happy because that's one thing they wouldn't have to do anymore for you.

speaker-0: Yeah, exactly.

speaker-1: And by the way, it's not to replace her job or his job. That person, most likely, he probably has a shitload of things to do because that's what most assistants have. They'll never complain. But the truth is they have about 40 hours a day's worth of work to do. They'll just say, okay, thank you. I'll get that done because that's who

speaker-0: They are. Then they're trying to manage their own workflow. Like it's all just downstream. Yeah.

speaker-1: Which is why I keep saying don't be so afraid of AI taking our jobs today. Be you know, if anything, embrace it and empower your people, empower your assistant, empower yourself. Make sure everyone is a manager of their own AI. And now you can get so much more work done. I'm a big believer of of life and work balance. And, you know, I I think if if if whatever we're paying all of our employees, I tell my team all the time, I'm not looking to get let go of anybody. I'm looking to make more money and work less. And if we can make that happen with AI, why not?

speaker-0: Exactly.

speaker-1: Wouldn't it be nice to go out and spend some more time with my kids or my friends or this or that? I think it's worth it.

speaker-0: As long as you are protecting what you are building, and I will always hold true to that. ⁓

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