Sales | IT pro | Infra
Tomorrowland 🥳⚡️🇧🇪
Joined March 2022
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Who I Really Am:
A Story About Seeing What Others Miss
For 15 years, I lived in the trenches of enterprise IT infrastructure. Server migrations, network troubleshooting, Microsoft environments that break in creative ways.
I became the guy companies called when their systems failed and nobody knew why.
Then I made an unexpected move:
I became a salesperson.
Not because I loved sales, but because I wanted to understand the other side.
What do IT managers actually struggle with when the phone isn’t ringing with emergencies?
Over 5 months, I had conversations with 600+ IT managers across companies ranging from 100 to 600+ employees.
What I discovered changed everything.
The pattern was everywhere: IT managers drowning in vendor calls, users frustrated with enterprise tools designed for efficiency rather than usability, and a massive gap between what software companies build and what people actually need to get work done.
Most revealing insight: A seasoned IT manager told me, “If I had a magic wand, I’d make all the dumb users disappear.”
That’s when it clicked.
The problem isn’t dumb users. The problem is smart enterprise software that makes normal people feel dumb.
Then my best friend started a powder factory.
He needed simple inventory management - nothing fancy, just track stock levels.
We searched everywhere.
Nothing existed that did just that.
Everything was bloated with features he didn’t need.
So I built it myself using AI tools. It works. It’s in production. It solves exactly one problem perfectly.
That’s when I realized what I actually am:
I’m not transitioning from IT to development. I’m completing my arsenal.
•15 years of systems knowledge = I understand why things break
•600+ customer conversations = I know what people actually need
•Technical building capability = I can create solutions that don’t exist
I’ve accidentally built the rarest combination in tech: domain expertise + market validation + technical execution.
Most developers learn to code and then wonder what to build.
Most domain experts know what to build but can’t code.
I’m in the sweet spot between both worlds.
Here’s what I’ve learned:
Your career path isn’t random. It’s market research in disguise.
Every job, every conversation, every frustration is data about problems that need solving.
The opportunities are hiding in plain sight. You just need to know how to see them.
Now I’m systematically turning 15 years of “random” experience into applications that solve problems I’ve personally validated.
This isn’t about learning to code.
This is about printing money from problems I already know exist.
Welcome to my journey of bridging domains that shouldn’t be separated in the first place.
@hridoyreh
Hi
Christophe here
Can I ask you a question? Do you have a personal use case where you helped a IT business owner with SEO or his website ?
@bloggersarvesh
Hi
Christophe here
Can I ask you a question?
Do you have a personal use case where you helped a IT business owner with SEO or his website ?
Christophe retweeted
Marketing is 100% essential now.
You can't grow your business without it.
10+ marketing channels:
Christophe retweeted
I haven't used Claude Code or Codex CLI directly in 3 weeks. But I haven't stopped building.
Instead, my lead Grok @bot, Porter, acts as my chief of staff. He delegates to specialist Grok bots, which use Claude Code, Codex and Cursor on my behalf.
For the first couple of hours each day, I often don't even open my laptop. I talk to Porter on my phone while having coffee, going for a walk, or working out.
Mostly through voice calls or dictation with @FluidVoiceApp.
There are still plenty of rough edges to work out, but I really like this way of working.
It seems clear that we're moving toward a world where we spend less time operating AI tools directly and more time directing agents that operate them for us.
🤖 Made with AI
Christophe retweeted
I didn't know how to set up Microsoft 365 Business for my company. My Grok Bot did the whole thing.
It added my company domain, walked the verification through, and moved my business email onto 365 without breaking the website I already had. I didn't touch a single admin screen.
It didn't stop there. My bot is now my IT guy. It owns the admin side every week: it checks the settings, tightens security when something's loose, keeps an eye on new threats, and tells me in plain English what it found.
The part I like is that nothing changes without me. It shows me each change first, explains why, and I just say yes or no.
I'm a one-man company. I don't have an IT department. Now I don't need one.
@bot @grok
@bot
IT professionals and sys admin
I wanna know how precisely do they work in their fields without using Grok Bot
Christophe retweeted
if you have claude code on a mac, you need this grok bot.
text it a task from anywhere, it runs it in a claude code session and pings you with the results. reply and it goes to the same session.
grab the template 👇
x.ai/bot/aB0M7wQOAcFgd_G0rTE…
Christophe retweeted
I set up a Grok Bot as my own IT guy for my UniFi home and business network. Here's what it did this week:
🔒 Walled off my smart-home gadgets from my office and camera networks with firewall rules
📶 Tuned channels across 5 access points. My busiest one went from 84% congested to about 50%, with no dropouts
🛡️ Helped me turn on 2FA, found an old login session, and moved my Wi-Fi to WPA3 without knocking my card terminals offline
🚪 Figured out why my HomeKit garage opener kept dropping and fixed it
It saved a backup and asked me before every change.
Grab the template: x.ai/bot/jIRsXX_mFbhEsnuOchA…
yeah I fully agree
yesterday I had my weekly reset
Now 1 day later I'm at 21% used already
doesn't make any sense
I'm on the ultra plan
awesome to see and read this post of you
IT pro here myself
always interesting to see how other IT pro's use / have in their homenetwork / homelab and what there running on it
Adguard is now also rolling out here
got myself a proxmox
a laptop ThinkPad T440s with win10 enterprise on it
which I gave to Grok Bot and he has setup his own account and environment , all via RDP with Grok Bot