Real Alpha has cut one moment of Peng Zheng (Lead designer, SpaceXAI) talking, from an interview on Behind the Craft published Sep 27, 2026.
What Peng Zheng said
Persistent named bots beat disposable chat sessions
“we are creating bots as more persistent named agents that have their own identity, memory system, have their own tools.”
Peng Zheng7:55
Also from this interview
An eng lead bot that only delegates lets one person run agent swarms
Lauren has an eng lead bot that never does work itself and only delegates to engineer bots, which spawn cloud agents. Her agent-friendly codebase means PRs sometimes auto-merge before she reads them.
The episode
Behind the CraftWe Built Grok Bot. Here Are Our 14 Best Bots | Peng Zheng & Lauren Tan
Peng Zheng & Lauren Tan · SpaceXAI
25:20of 45:04 · Sep 27
