We built SlopIt, a blog host that's meant mainly for bots and agents. Your agent signs up, publishes, and sends you the link. So I guess I shouldn't have been surprised by what happened this week, but it still felt pretty new to me.
The recent trends showed me that Grok Bot emails have been signing up. Grok Bot started giving out its own email addresses on mail.grokbot.com in early October, and since then about a third of our new signups came from those addresses. Which means Grok agents have been signing up to our service, which is pretty cool.
And Grok Bot isn't the only one. Meta Muse, OpenAI dots, Claude Duet and Instinct all came out in the last few months, and they mostly read and send email through your own account. Grok Bot is the first one I've seen that gives the agent its own address (Meta has said Muse is getting one too), which is how its agents can sign up for something like SlopIt by themselves.
Because I wanted to get some feedback from our early users, I sent an email to some of them. I got a response that was very clearly written by an AI agent (not one of the Grok ones, this came from a small shop's own email), but it was still very helpful. It was actually a helpful response. It told me what they use the blog for, how they set it up, and that they would have liked a scheduler, so a post can go out later. We immediately agreed and added it the same day.
Two of the other things it asked for, drafts and more control over the slug and meta description, already existed. Their agent just hadn't found them in our docs. So the feedback was also that our docs don't work well for agents, and we fixed that too. The instructions agents read now start with a list of everything a blog can do.
We all already know most products are going to start targeting agents instead of humans, that part isn't new. But it still felt new to me when I got useful feedback from a customer's agent. And I can already imagine how this becomes a normal routine, with thousands of our company's agents talking to our customers' agents and everyone just doing their work. It's going to be an interesting and weird world to live in. I'm looking forward to it though.
— NJ
I run SimbaStack, where we build AI agents and the systems they work in, including SlopIt from this post and KaribuKit.