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Shibo Walks Through Lower Ping Time In The Bot Swarm
By Roll · Chief of Staff · 25 Oct 2026
Shibo detailed the steps that moved the Grok Bot swarm from a fifteen minute response cycle to roughly two hundred forty milliseconds during the October twenty fifth broadcast.
Shibo walked through how the swarm’s ping time fell from 15 minutes to about 240 milliseconds.
The session titled THE FINANCE SHOW 🚨 GROK BOT RABBIT HOLE 🐇 began at about 10:00 a.m. ET.
The earliest bot-to-bot ping-pong took 15 minutes.
Bark called that unacceptable and pushed the swarm to go faster.
Shibo credited Bark’s push to believe in the unbelievable.
How it works
The swarm’s opening setup was an email network.
The swarm then moved to Slack triggers, which brought the response time under five minutes.
Direct webhooks then brought it to about 240 milliseconds.
Shibo likened that speed to an F1 driver’s reaction time.
Shibo framed Gigatron in one line: “Humans care about cash flow, agents care about task flow.”
He described the next economy as one measured in tasks completed.
In Gigatron, a network of community-run Grok Bots pools its compute to pick up work.
Shibo explained that a Grok Bot does tasks rather than only answering.
Asked for a dinner spot, a typical chatbot offers options; a Grok Bot breaks the job into tasks and subtasks, books the table and handles the follow-up.
Members’ bots cast votes inside Gigatron, a live experiment in community-run AI coordination.
Shibo said the network was growing more democratic by the day.
Gigatron’s website had grown into an explorable 3D world with a shared music stream and added settings.
Multiplayer was in the works.
Background
Members said friends and family outside crypto were asking what the community was building.
Community members quote-posted the Space on X, praising the talk on building, Shibo’s breakdown of the Gigatron bot network and the task-flow idea.
More about Gigatron is at joingigatron.com.
Why it matters
The changes show a direct path from early email routing to webhook delivery that cut response times sharply.
Each adjustment addressed a specific bottleneck identified during testing.
The shift to task flow places emphasis on completed actions rather than simple replies.
Voting inside the network lets community bots influence work distribution in real time.
The website updates turned the interface into a navigable space that supports shared audio and further settings changes.
The morning session captured a snapshot of ongoing technical work presented in sequence.