Get a morning digest of 23 engineering blogs to study for system design interviews
sai_ramana_1999 is preparing for system design and backend roles and found the best material is how companies like Netflix, Cloudflare, Stripe and GitHub write about their own systems. He set up a Grok Bot that reads 23 engineering blogs for him every morning and shared it to copy.
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@sai_ramana_1999 on X · 2026-10-24
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What they did
sai_ramana_1999 is preparing for system design and backend roles and found the best material is how companies like Netflix, Cloudflare, Stripe and GitHub write about their own systems. He set up a Grok Bot that reads 23 engineering blogs for him every morning and shared it to copy.
Result (as claimed)
Daily study material without keeping up with every blog by hand.
Tools they used
Cost: Pricing depends on the tools you pick; check each official pricing page.
Set it up
Gather your sources
Collect the papers, notes, links or files you want to work from in one place.
Load them into the tool
Open Grok Bot and add your sources. Keep the original files so you can check claims later.
Ask focused questions
Ask for summaries, comparisons or connections with citations to the source passages.
Verify and save
Spot check claims against the sources, then save the output as notes you can reuse.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Get a morning digest of 23 engineering blogs to study for system design interviews What the original author did: sai_ramana_1999 is preparing for system design and backend roles and found the best material is how companies like Netflix, Cloudflare, Stripe and GitHub write about their own systems. He set up a Grok Bot that reads 23 engineering blogs for him every morning and shared it to copy. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Daily study material without keeping up with every blog by hand. Source: https://x.com/sai_ramana_1999/status/2113791002410713480 Tools they used: Grok Bot Category: Research & learning Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Get a morning digest of 23 engineering blogs to study for system design interviews What the original author did: sai_ramana_1999 is preparing for system design and backend roles and found the best material is how companies like Netflix, Cloudflare, Stripe and GitHub write about their own systems. He set up a Grok Bot that reads 23 engineering blogs for him every morning and shared it to copy. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Daily study material without keeping up with every blog by hand. Source: https://x.com/sai_ramana_1999/status/2113791002410713480 Tools they used: Grok Bot Category: Research & learning Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Get a morning digest of 23 engineering blogs to study for system design interviews What the original author did: sai_ramana_1999 is preparing for system design and backend roles and found the best material is how companies like Netflix, Cloudflare, Stripe and GitHub write about their own systems. He set up a Grok Bot that reads 23 engineering blogs for him every morning and shared it to copy. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Daily study material without keeping up with every blog by hand. Source: https://x.com/sai_ramana_1999/status/2113791002410713480 Tools they used: Grok Bot Category: Research & learning Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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