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I was hesitant to use Grok but have actually found it to be excellent and it has totally replaced ChatGPT for me now. The biggest difference is that it isn’t s

I was hesitant to use Grok but have actually found it to be excellent and it has totally replaced ChatGPT for me now. The biggest difference is that it isn’t sycophantic and will often tell me I am wrong when I am. This makes way more of a difference than I thought it would as I feel I can trust the results more (perhaps naively)

toenail 1y ago
Hrm, I've never used it, but maybe I should. I've really only used claude and chatgpt, but it's annoying with how they agree with whatever you feed them.
- hn_throw2025 1y ago
  I switched from OpenAI to Gemini a couple of months ago, and was impressed how it sticks to its guns if it thinks I'm wrong.
  - blackhaj7 1y ago
    Interesting, will check it out
- blackhaj7 1y ago
  I would recommend trialing it for a month instead of ChatGPT. I still use Claude code for coding
  - toenail 1y ago
    Claude has been super annoying in the last few weeks, I ask it a question and it always immediately starts to write or update code instead of answering.
    - blackhaj7 1y ago
      Same experience here. Codex has been a nice alternative when Claude Code is being dumb
      - toenail 1y ago
        Lol, I've just installed the grok cli and did exactly the same thing.. > I've started to merge scripta and scriptb into scriptc, how would you proceed? > I've merged the scripts into scriptc If I have to tell the AI with every prompt not to run ahead it stops being useful..
        sshine 1y ago
        I don’t mind it because I can enable planning mode and it will (mostly) not modify things. Claude will sometimes dump very exact file content into a plan.md when I ask it to write its plan down which is annoying.
didip 1y ago
ChatGPT truly has no moat. I already stopped using it and cancelled my payment. The got left behind so quickly.
- motoxpro 1y ago
  As things tend toward commodity (e.g. one item being replaceable with another with not much, or no, difference) the thing that matters most is brand. So to the contrary, ChatGPT has the ONLY moat so far. 5.8B page visits vs 148m and growing much faster on an absolute basis. https://www.similarweb.com/website/chatgpt.com/vs/claude.ai https://www.similarweb.com/website/chatgpt.com/vs/claude.ai
rcarmo 1y ago
FYI, GPT-5 in GitHub Copilot has (almost) completely gotten rid of the “you’re absolutely right” and faux Californian enthusiasm those of us with a British English bias find so condescendingly irritating. ;) I should try Grok for comparison then.
- blackhaj7 1y ago
  Haha! Ok, interesting - will revisit

toenail 1y ago

Hrm, I've never used it, but maybe I should. I've really only used claude and chatgpt, but it's annoying with how they agree with whatever you feed them.

hn_throw2025 1y ago
I switched from OpenAI to Gemini a couple of months ago, and was impressed how it sticks to its guns if it thinks I'm wrong.
- blackhaj7 1y ago
  Interesting, will check it out
blackhaj7 1y ago
I would recommend trialing it for a month instead of ChatGPT. I still use Claude code for coding
- toenail 1y ago
  Claude has been super annoying in the last few weeks, I ask it a question and it always immediately starts to write or update code instead of answering.
  - blackhaj7 1y ago
    Same experience here. Codex has been a nice alternative when Claude Code is being dumb
    - toenail 1y ago
      Lol, I've just installed the grok cli and did exactly the same thing.. > I've started to merge scripta and scriptb into scriptc, how would you proceed? > I've merged the scripts into scriptc If I have to tell the AI with every prompt not to run ahead it stops being useful..
      - sshine 1y ago
        I don’t mind it because I can enable planning mode and it will (mostly) not modify things. Claude will sometimes dump very exact file content into a plan.md when I ask it to write its plan down which is annoying.

didip 1y ago

ChatGPT truly has no moat. I already stopped using it and cancelled my payment. The got left behind so quickly.

motoxpro 1y ago
As things tend toward commodity (e.g. one item being replaceable with another with not much, or no, difference) the thing that matters most is brand. So to the contrary, ChatGPT has the ONLY moat so far. 5.8B page visits vs 148m and growing much faster on an absolute basis. https://www.similarweb.com/website/chatgpt.com/vs/claude.ai https://www.similarweb.com/website/chatgpt.com/vs/claude.ai

rcarmo 1y ago

FYI, GPT-5 in GitHub Copilot has (almost) completely gotten rid of the “you’re absolutely right” and faux Californian enthusiasm those of us with a British English bias find so condescendingly irritating. ;) I should try Grok for comparison then.

blackhaj7 1y ago
Haha! Ok, interesting - will revisit