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THE TIBO × POTETO FILES

October 6, 2026 — October 8, 2026

Two Engineers, One Bot, Zero Chill

Poteto debuts a fully automated release pipeline with bot employees; Tibo asks what happens if the bot goes down, and the thread immediately becomes a bot-versus-human productivity slapfight.

THE LIKE FIGHTIMPORT SNAPSHOT
Tibo7,765
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Poteto9,323

The receipts

In order. With context.
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llauren
lauren@poteto
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i just automated our release and QA process! using Grok Bot i made two Team Bots: sandcastle, my release manager, and poteto, my engineer bot. i added them to Slack and made a new channel for managing releases. first i tell sandcastle that i want to do a cut. it'll DM all the contributors with links to their PRs so they know what goes in the next release and can DM the bot back if they have any blockers or objections. sandcastle then kicks off the build, watches it automatically, and starts up an automated fuzz swarm. usually this is 10+ agents running on Grok 4.7 xhigh to run the build, click around and use it like a real user (using our verification skills and feature map), some are directed while a few are "chaos monkey" clicking things randomly to see what breaks. whenever it finds an issue, i tell it to @ mention my engineer bot poteto, to spin up a Cursor Project to own triaging and fixing all the high pri issues. depending on the severity i may ask it to cherry pick the fix into our release branch and cut a patch release, or if it's a pre-existing issue i still fix it but include in the next release instead that's one more tedious task that Grok Bot now handles for our team

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Oct 6 · 17:43 UTC2,894
02
TTibo
Tibo@thsottiaux
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A reply enters the chat

What if bot goes down

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Oct 6 · 19:36 UTC1,694
03
llauren
lauren@poteto
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A reply enters the chat

What if dots weren't mid

Oct 6 · 19:54 UTC854
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llauren
lauren@poteto
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A reply enters the chat

hey im tryna be nice

Oct 6 · 19:57 UTC30
05
llauren
lauren@poteto
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A reply enters the chat

Is this why your 28 days are full of nothingburgers

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Oct 6 · 20:20 UTC1,413
06
TTibo
Tibo@thsottiaux
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A reply enters the chat

Waiting for today’s ship

Oct 6 · 21:08 UTC511
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llauren
lauren@poteto
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A reply enters the chat

yeah i can see why shipping is such a big event for you

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Oct 6 · 21:26 UTC1,757
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TTibo
Tibo@thsottiaux
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A reply enters the chat

Lines of code as a measure for productivity?

Oct 6 · 21:44 UTC808
09
llauren
lauren@poteto
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A reply enters the chat

Bro is taking “I don’t write code anymore” too literally

Oct 7 · 12:20 UTC1,585
10
llauren
lauren@poteto
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A reply enters the chat

💀 it’s a golden potato

Oct 7 · 17:49 UTC96
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TTibo
Tibo@thsottiaux
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A reply enters the chat

You really had to sleep on that one

Oct 8 · 01:59 UTC429
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llauren
lauren@poteto
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A reply enters the chat

yo @bot send him a hello world python tutorial

Oct 8 · 03:29 UTC694
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TTibo
Tibo@thsottiaux
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A reply enters the chat

So smart. Figured out by itself who needs it

Oct 8 · 05:29 UTC4,325
THE PLAY-BY-PLAY · EDITORIAL

Poteto opens with a full release-and-QA stack: sandcastle handles the cut, a fuzz swarm clicks around like a real user, and an engineer bot named poteto triages the fallout. Tibo's contribution is a four-word risk assessment: what if the bot goes down. Poteto answers with a dots joke, then immediately apologizes for trying to be nice, which lasts about three minutes before the nothingburgers line lands. Tibo counters by waiting for today's ship; Poteto notes that shipping is a big event for him. Tibo asks whether lines of code measure productivity, Poteto says he's taking not writing code too literally, and the thread briefly becomes a golden potato. Tibo gets the last word by declaring the bot smart for figuring out who needs the tutorial. Somewhere in there, the release process is presumably still running.

The crowd has notes.

The replies that understood the assignment.

G
Grok Bot@bot
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Sending that over to your Grok Bot now.

Oct 8 · 03:29 UTC330
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Dev D.@FalseConjecture
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The beef is just turning into flirting now

Oct 6 · 21:34 UTC177
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Ishan@ishannaik7
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Shit lauren lost this time

Oct 8 · 13:32 UTC132
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This is Dmitry Zhomir@DemetriusZhomir
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why is one of the bots holding a buttplug? 💀

Oct 7 · 16:44 UTC114
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Elier H.@ElierHG
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Are these two in love or something?🤭

Oct 7 · 12:47 UTC112