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> No idea why this thread is so negative (also got flagged while I was typing this?) Grok is owned by Elon Musk. Anything positive that is even tangentially r
by _mlbt 1y ago
> No idea why this thread is so negative (also got flagged while I was typing this?)
Grok is owned by Elon Musk. Anything positive that is even tangentially related to him will be treated negatively by certain people here. Additionally, it is an AI coding tool which is seen as a threat to some people’s livelihoods here. It’s a double whammy, so I’m not surprised by the reaction to it at all.
- dewey 1y agoClaude Code threads are full of excited people so I’m not sure the second part is true.
- supriyo-biswas 1y agoIf we accept the "broken windows" theory, it'd seem that people love to pile onto a thread that already has negativity. See also the Microsoft threads on HN where everyone threatens to switch to Linux, and by reading them you'd think Linux is finally about to have its infamous glory year on the desktop.
- jchw 1y agoPeople really are trying to switch to Linux right now, but it won't really matter if it doesn't stick, and spoiler alert, for most people it probably won't stick as a daily driver. Still, it's an interesting sort of unplanned experiment to watch.
- weaksauce 1y agoi’d love to switch to linux as a daily driver but the mac cmd shortcuts for text editing and the general well thought out text editing in the system make macos more compelling. i’d love to switch over for gaming on the windows computer but the lack of performance for comparable specs hurts it. drivers are very important. ive seen some that change it for copy and paste but i don’t think it works for cmd-left right up down. or option those.
- jdiff 1y agoThe chords are different, but the only functionality missing from the other OSes are predictive text, text expansion, and skipping to the beginning/end of an entire text box. Are those the text editing features you're referring to or am I missing out on something more?
- weaksauce 1y agobeginning and end of a textbox is huge. cmd basically acts as a home end key in windows. opt acts like word wise. there is another big difference is that cmd+up/down goes to the beginning or end of a window. there’s also the emacs bindings built into every standard text input area too. there’s more and a lot of nuance that i’m surely not describing well but those functions are top notch.
- blurbleblurble 1y agoAnthropic lives up to their name, so far
- jjangkke 1y ago[flagged]
- cosmicgadget 1y agoElon aside, Grok has its own reputation issues.
- seunosewa 1y agoAnd this model is arguably their least impressive model.
- wongarsu 1y agoMostly by name association. The LLMs named Grok are good LLMs. The twitter bot of the same name, using those models and a custom prompt, has a habit of creating controversy. Usually after somebody modified the system prompt. I use grok a lot on the web interface (grok.com) and never had any weird incidents. It's a run-of-the-mill SOTA model with good web search and less safety training
- fortyseven 1y ago[flagged]
- miohtama 1y ago^ And this, ladies and gentlemen, is a stereotypical example of a user who are happy to downvote anything about Musk, and thus Grok. So for the future reference this kind of behaviour should not come as a surprise.
- cebert 1y agoWhat “serious damage” do you believe Elon did?
- jameshart 1y agoThe US seems to no longer have an overseas aid program. The Institute of Peace got shut down. Data protections at the social security administration were breached. https://time.com/7312556/doge-social-security-data-whistleblower-complaint/ https://time.com/7312556/doge-social-security-data-whistlebl... Oh, and some asshole threw a couple of Nazi salutes at the president’s inauguration.
- synecdoche 1y agoInstitute of Peace you say? It couldn't sound more like double speak could it? Similar to the DDR.
- jameshart 1y agoWhat kind of an argument is that? ‘That’s just the sort of name they would choose if they were trying to cover up that they are evil!’ Yes - it’s also the kind of name they would choose if they were an institute dedicated to diplomacy.
- _mlbt 1y agoIn this case it really is Orwellian double speak. They were a CIA front that was used to support their regime change operations. War is Peace indeed.