How AI Changed How I Work: A Week's Worth of Work Before I Got Out of Bed on Saturday

I never got out of bed Saturday morning. From about 9:30 to 11:20 I was on my iPad, telling agents what I wanted and approving what came back, with YouTube on the TV playing Grok Bot videos and Cybertruck reviews. A domain got its own sending address. Two PRs moved, and four replies got queued. All of it done on a Saturday morning.

Nothing goes out without me

I tell Grok Bot what I want. My main operator bot is called Chief. It has teammate bots, and each one owns one area. Chief figures out what's needed and hands it off, sometimes to another Grok Bot, sometimes to BlackOps where my notes and queues live, and sometimes to a Claude session that writes the code.

These agents come from different companies, but that doesn't matter. They pass work to each other through notes and queues, and each one picks up where the last one stopped. My part is approving sends and anything risky. Nothing goes out without me.

Where the work sits

BlackOps is where the work sits between agents. When Grok Bot decides something needs building, it writes a feature note in BlackOps. BlackOps Shop hands that note to a Claude session to build. Replies for X wait in the BlackOps reply queue until I post them. My highlights land in a brain there. That's just a folder of markdown notes I own. And when I want to mark up a draft like this one, I open its review page in BlackOps and leave comments.

So no agent has to remember what another one was doing. It's written down. The next one reads it and keeps going.

Replies from the right address

I'm selling a domain. Offers from the form on that site now go by email straight to a bot I set up for it, not to my Gmail. This morning I asked if it could reply from the right address.

Grok Bot connected Resend. It added the domain's DNS records on Vercel without touching my existing mail, and verified it. Replies now go out from an address on that domain. Then the bot found an offer from Thursday that came in without an amount, and drafted a reply. I read it in chat, approved it, and it was sent. So the bot now sends from the domain it's selling. I never opened a DNS dashboard.

A list of 24 companies

I also asked where I could list the domain for free. Grok Bot looked into Afternic, Atom, Sedo, Spaceship and NamePros, and told me what each one does.

The domain bot took that and built a list of 24 companies with the same name as the domain. It wrote a personal email draft for each one, plus an Atom submission and a NamePros thread. None of it is sent yet. It all waits for my OK.

Merged by lunch

I've been replacing Readwise with BlackOps, so Kindle and Web highlights land in a brain. I asked where that stood. Grok Bot checked and found that saving highlights from the browser extension into a brain I pick works. So does a Kindle clippings importer. It listed what was still missing.

I said yes to a Kindle notebook sync, and Grok Bot wrote two feature notes. One for the Kindle sync. One for a daily highlights review. BlackOps Shop handed both to Claude feature-builder sessions. The Kindle sync PR was open by late morning. Merged by lunch. A separate fix for duplicate notes from vault import had merged too.

While I was reading a note in BlackOps admin, I realized the editor needs an Obsidian-style source and preview toggle. I typed one sentence about it. A few minutes later it was a feature note, and Claude was building it.

The video link didn't come through

My reply queue normally fills up on its own. But that routine only runs on weekdays, so nothing was there. I asked Grok Bot to fill in. It found 4 fresh X posts worth replying to, attached my new videos, and queued them in the BlackOps reply queue. I started replying from the queue on my iPad. The video link didn't come through, so I sent a screenshot. A fix was building within minutes, which is kind of absurd for a bug I reported from bed.

Comments didn't work on the iPad

Then I opened this post's review page on my iPad to leave notes on it. On my laptop I can select text and leave a comment. On the iPad I got one comment to stick, on the word "agents". Everything else just gave me the normal iOS select and edit menu. So I described what I need: editing text, commenting on selected words, and commenting on a whole paragraph. It went into BlackOps as a feature note for Claude to build.

What I actually did

I asked a handful of questions and said yes to the Kindle notebook sync. I approved one email reply, mentioned one editor idea, posted replies from the queue, and sent one screenshot. That's it.

The agents did everything else. Long list. On the domain, they connected Resend, set up and verified DNS, found the Thursday offer and drafted the reply, researched five marketplaces, built the list of 24 companies with an email draft for each, and drafted the Atom submission and the NamePros thread. On BlackOps, they checked what was left on the Readwise replacement, wrote the feature notes, opened the Kindle sync PR, merged the duplicate notes fix, and started on the editor toggle. On X, they found the posts, attached the videos and queued them. Then they started fixing the video link bug. From a screenshot.

Nothing went out without me saying so. Safe fixes merge on their own. Anything that deletes or rewrites data waits for me. I didn't type any of the setup or research or code. Grok Bot, BlackOps and Claude took turns, with BlackOps holding the notes and queues in between. I checked in when it was mine, usually with one word.