Acknowledgement
of Country
The Cammeraygal people, traditional custodians of this land.
Joshua
Crowley
Grok Bot
at home
and at work.
Joshua Crowley
Design Engineer at Envato
Cursor Regional Lead Ambassador
Who’s tried
Grok Bot?
Early access
as an ambassador
???
Two weeks
little experiments
click!
Speed
How agents work
Prompt
Agent
Answer
How agents work
Prompt
Agent
Answer
my mental model
A free
computer
a VM in the cloud
the same
computer
…that’s it?
The sharehouse
neighbours!
Shared kitchen
the file system
signed-in Chrome
Their own room
LANDLORD
(or chief of staff)
Just knock
on the door.
Four ingredients
Ingredient #1
Context
Ingredient #2
Plugins
Notion
GitHub
Gmail
huge
unlock!
Ingredient #3
Credentials
CLOUDFLARE_API_TOKEN
••••••••••••
for APIs that don’t have a plugin
Ingredient #4
Memories
sharper
over time
Where’s your data?
Model Lab
every morning
best prompt, tried on Envato
Prototype Lab
build brief
the good
ones
At work
Envato bot
Signed in
on that
computer
me, on my phone
Film
2:00
No film loaded yet: add film/film.mp4
(or set a link in js/config.js)
Testing the site
screenshots
edge cases
At home
Little web apps
for the kids
Frankie’s reading app
“How did she go this week?”
Frankie’s
World
in-deck mock: set frankieUrl
in js/config.js for the live app
The next
version just
happens.
all on my phone
DinoSnap
a big hit
Maths adventure
less successful
Malleable software
clay,
not an appliance
“Malleable software”, Ink & Switch · Geoffrey Litt et al. · inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software
Built for your kid.
v1
v2
v3
the next version is better
Side business
Curious
Kitchen
training: building with cloud agents
(and Grok Bot)
Curious Kitchen
Luma
Membership site
sets up events
publishes content
Workshop
Saturday 28 November
Haberfield Library, Sydney
curiouskitchen.club