#AGENT Some issues with using Grok Bot
The longer I use Grok, the dumber it seems to get. I recommend giving your Personal Agent a thorough memory cleanup every couple of weeks ๐ฅ I ran into this issue before when I was experimenting with Hermes Agent. It was very smart at first, but as Memory, Skills, and all kinds of prompts kept piling up, the Agent sometimes started giving irrelevant answers and even struggled with simple tasks. It took me a while to realize that the problem might not be with the modelโit could also be that weโve let our Context get too messy.
As the context grows, the Agent may actually get dumber. Iโm sure many of you have felt your Grok Bot gradually getting less capable. It doesnโt necessarily mean the AI is actually getting dumber. It may simply be that your context and prompts are gradually accumulating. Once the context reaches a certain size, it can fill up with repeated or conflicting instructions. This can cause context rot, making your instructions less precise and the results you get worse and worse. I feel like this is a common problem with Personal Agents.
I usually organize my Agentโs memory every two weeks to a month. I started using Hermes Agent quite a while ago, and I noticed that if you donโt regularly tidy up its memories, persona, and Skills, your Hermes will get dumber and dumberโespecially when it starts doing things that are completely off base. So once a month or so, or every couple of weeks, I ask the AI to review its own context and prompts and sort out any conflicting or repeated instructions. Hermes Agent also imposes size limits on key MD files like USER and Memory, helping keep prompts concise so the Agent can work more accurately and make fewer mistakes.
Another issue with Grok Bot is that its model routing is opaque. The entire AI routing process behind Grok Bot is a black box. You donโt know whether a task is actually being handled by Opus 5.5, Grok 4.6, or 4.7, which is a major problem too. But there isnโt really a good solution, because unlike Hermes Agent, you canโt customize the AI and context being used. Here, everything has to go through the official routing system.
The longer I use Grok, the dumber it seems to get. I recommend giving your Personal Agent a thorough memory cleanup every couple of weeks ๐ฅ I ran into this issue before when I was experimenting with Hermes Agent. It was very smart at first, but as Memory, Skills, and all kinds of prompts kept piling up, the Agent sometimes started giving irrelevant answers and even struggled with simple tasks. It took me a while to realize that the problem might not be with the modelโit could also be that weโve let our Context get too messy.
As the context grows, the Agent may actually get dumber. Iโm sure many of you have felt your Grok Bot gradually getting less capable. It doesnโt necessarily mean the AI is actually getting dumber. It may simply be that your context and prompts are gradually accumulating. Once the context reaches a certain size, it can fill up with repeated or conflicting instructions. This can cause context rot, making your instructions less precise and the results you get worse and worse. I feel like this is a common problem with Personal Agents.
I usually organize my Agentโs memory every two weeks to a month. I started using Hermes Agent quite a while ago, and I noticed that if you donโt regularly tidy up its memories, persona, and Skills, your Hermes will get dumber and dumberโespecially when it starts doing things that are completely off base. So once a month or so, or every couple of weeks, I ask the AI to review its own context and prompts and sort out any conflicting or repeated instructions. Hermes Agent also imposes size limits on key MD files like USER and Memory, helping keep prompts concise so the Agent can work more accurately and make fewer mistakes.
Another issue with Grok Bot is that its model routing is opaque. The entire AI routing process behind Grok Bot is a black box. You donโt know whether a task is actually being handled by Opus 5.5, Grok 4.6, or 4.7, which is a major problem too. But there isnโt really a good solution, because unlike Hermes Agent, you canโt customize the AI and context being used. Here, everything has to go through the official routing system.
