# Dev Tool Loop Network

How coding helpers Grok Bots, Grok Build and Cursor pass jobs along tunnels as colour\-coded pods, with room to add your own project stations\.

By Alan Curtis

Topic: Computing, AI & Electronics

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## Transcript

### 1. Welcome to the Loop

This glowing model is a tunnel network for your coding helpers\. Three home stations are joined by tunnels, and little pods zip between them carrying work\. It is inspired by the Vegas Loop, where real cars drive through tunnels under Las Vegas\.

The first Vegas Loop opened in 2021: 1\.7 miles \(2\.7 km\) of tunnel, about 40 feet \(12 m\) underground\.

### 2. Three home stations

Each tool is a station with its own colour\. The purple robot head is Grok Bots, the orange workshop tower is Grok Build, and the teal arrow is Cursor\. A tool is simply a stop on the line\.

### 3. A pod is a message

When one tool hands work to another, picture it as a pod\. Watch a purple pod carry a job from Grok Bots to Cursor\. The light on its roof shows whose work it is carrying\.

In the real Loop, people ride in electric cars at about 35 mph \(56 km/h\)\.

### 4. Back and forth

Follow one example job all the way round\. Grok Bots asks for a change, Cursor writes the code, Grok Build builds and tests it, and the result comes home\. The roof light changes colour at each stop, because the pod now carries that tool's work\.

Every link has two tunnels, one for each direction, so pods never meet head on\.

### 5. Add your projects

Your projects can join the network too\. Press Add project and a new station rises with its own pair of tunnels to the nearest tool\. Keep adding: there is room for twelve project stations\.

### 6. Rush hour

More work means more pods\. Slide the traffic up and watch every tunnel fill\. Each pod keeps to its own lane, so even a busy network stays calm and tidy\.

In its busiest hour in 2021, the real Loop carried 1,355 passengers\.

### 7. A growing network

The real Loop began as one short line under a convention centre\. Today it has about a dozen stations, with plans for more than 100\. Your network can grow the same way, one station and two tunnels at a time\.