I haven’t used Claude Code or the Codex CLI directly in three weeks. I haven’t stopped building. I’ve changed who sits at the keyboard.
Porter, my lead Grok bot, works as my chief of staff. I give him direction. He breaks it down and hands it to specialist bots, each with one area. They do the work on a shared computer with Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, and they keep their context in one Notion workspace, so a project doesn’t start from zero when a different bot picks it up.
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Direction
Me Voice and chat, mostly from my phone
Porter Chief of staff. Plans and delegates.
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Specialists
- Project management Plans, tracks, keeps things moving
- Startup ideas Researches and validates
- Career and networking LinkedIn, CRM, relationships
- Groceries Orders, takes requests from my wife over iMessage
- Finances and investing Tracks and analyzes
- Writing Drafts and edits with Claude
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Shared computer
Claude Code · Codex · Cursor
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Shared memory
Notion: Projects · CRM · Ideas · Drafts
For the first couple of hours most days, I don’t open my laptop. I talk to Porter on my phone over coffee, on a walk, or while I work out, mostly by voice call or dictation. While the agents work, I’m doing chores, training, or spending time with my family. I’m no longer sitting at a desk waiting for one task to finish so I can type the next instruction.
There are still plenty of rough edges. But I think this is where the work is going: less time operating individual AI tools, more time directing agents that operate them for us, through interfaces we already use all day, like voice and messaging.