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Grok Build is open source
- Unified-Mentor 3mo ago[flagged]
- loufe 3mo agoI wonder if releasing this may have been on the roadmap, but been prioritized as a bit of whiplash following the "you forfeit the entirety of your working directory as a condition of working with this tool" upset from a few days ago.
- dmix 3mo agoMost likely, SpaceX killed the code uploading yesterday so they are definitely concerned about the backlash > The researcher who exposed Grok Build uploading users' entire repositories to cloud storage says the transfers have stopped after a server-side change. Elon Musk has separately promised that all previously uploaded user data will be deleted. https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/14/musk-promises-purge-after-grok-build-caught-sending-entire-repos-to-the-cloud/5271123 https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/14/musk-promis...
- choppaface 3mo agoI wonder if we can trust that it will actually be deleted though based upon what happened to DOGE and Social Security data https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5684185/doge-data-social-security-privacy https://www.npr.org/2026/01/23/nx-s1-5684185/doge-data-socia...
- justinkramp 3mo ago[flagged]
- tomhow 3mo agoPlease don't just post the most obvious snarky comment about a given topic. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- mattbillenstein 3mo agoSorta amazes me how people in various levels of power will not say the obvious thing or actively discourage saying the obvious thing because it might offend Elon. Recently all the big bank CEOs involved with the SpaceX IPO - a lot of money in that for them - but a company trading at 100x sales is clearly crazy.
- ofjcihen 3mo agoYeah I don’t get it. These are legitimate questions to ask considering what happened recently. Being nice, maybe Tomhow is just unaware?
- tomhow 3mo agoPeople post critical things about the most powerful people and companies all the time here and we have zero problem with it. What I'm asking for is for people to not post the most obvious, snarky comment, regardless of the topic/target, not because of who it may “offend” (as if the most powerful people in the world would have any awareness or care about a comment like that on HN), but because it makes HN seem repetitive, miserable and lame. Critique away, just make discussions thoughtful and substantive, which is what HN is for.
- lynndotpy 3mo agoFor what it's worth, this doesn't read as "snark" to me. There _are_ many direct critiques in this thread about X being caught uploading users home directories, and some are clearly snark. I understand that you read this as a rhetorical question meant as a critique. But it's really not clear to me why this should be read as a snarky, critical, rhetorical question. Someone who eagerly wants to use Grok Build would ask this exact same question. "Does this [Grok Build] also just directly suck all your code up and make a copy of it on their servers?" is a question that is (1) salient and (2) answerable and (3) could be thoroughly devastating for someone to find out on their own by using it. The answer is not present in the README, and XAi has blocked Issues and Discussions, so there's none of the usual avenues on GitHub to ask these questions. It seems perfectly typical and expected for someone to ask this question here.
- ofjcihen 3mo agoHonestly a great question. I mean if it’s open source someone will check (I don’t use xAI but believe me I would be checking first if I did).
- petesergeant 3mo agoNeat, trying to reverse engineer some specifics of how it does stuff has been a pain in the ass, and this will make it easier.
- jdiff 3mo agoTo some degree at least. This is a hulking monster of a codebase for what it does, it's definitely LLM-built and almost definitely requires an LLM to tackle at all.
- petesergeant 3mo ago> almost definitely requires an LLM to tackle at all Conveniently I have some of those… first day of trying to script Grok Build I think I sent in 6 bugs of slightly weird behaviour I discovered, it will be much more useful to (have an agent) check the source and see if stuff looks deliberate or like a bug, etc
- SimianSci 3mo ago[flagged]
- jamiequint 3mo agoDo you have any examples to illustrate these extraordinary claims?
- agartner 3mo agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892468
- jamiequint 3mo agoread the top comment
- mplewis 3mo agoread any of your other replies
- ryandrake 3mo agoOP seems to be asking for examples with an intent to dismiss and downplay each of them, and not to actually read into them and challenge his existing beliefs about X/Grok/Musk.
- jamiequint 3mo agoLOL, pot meet kettle for real.
- ryandrake 3mo agoOpen to changing my mind. I would be interested in reading positive, uplifting news about xAI/Grok/Musk that demonstrated a repeated pattern of ethical, careful, compassionate, attentive, and/or responsible business and engineering practices.
- calldacopsidgaf 3mo ago[flagged]
- dimgl 3mo agoWhy snowflakes? You can use /feedback in the app.
- calldacopsidgaf 3mo ago[flagged]
- dimgl 3mo agoI just like Grok 4.5 and Grok Build
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- arcanemachiner 3mo agoI'll probably never use this, but at least they're not delusional enough to attempt to justify keeping their coding agent closed-source, especially after their recent data-harvesting cockup: https://cereblab.com/ https://cereblab.com/
- simianwords 3mo agoSigh, why has the industry converged on TUI? Branding and aesthetics over functionality? TUI is just much worse for me. I tried Codex CLI vs Codex UI and Codex UI beats it at every level.
- maipen 3mo agoAnd why are you assuming the industry converged to it when your following statement dismantles your assumption? Spacex bought cursor, so it now has it’s agent ui which is just as good as codex + it’s multi-modal Anthropic also has it’s own ui Zai also launched theirs last month. Everyone is converging back to UI. The terminal was just a prototype, everyone knew that.
- simianwords 3mo agoClaude code which is most used agent harness doesn’t have desktop equivalent
- pproe 3mo agoApart from Claude desktop, that is...
- saratogacx 3mo agoIt has had one for months. The desktop app has a "code" mode which is Claude Code in GUI form
- yoyohello13 3mo agohttps://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop https://code.claude.com/docs/en/desktop
- greggh 3mo agoJust a prototype? I have no reason to leave the terminal for a GUI IDE. TUI works great, does what I need and is very easy to use and interact with.
- tommica 3mo agoInteresting - seen some good experiencences in using grok by some devs, so maybe could be considered as an alternative to my beloved chinese models. Also, hard to give up on pi agent.
- dimgl 3mo agoGrok Build seems faster to me than `omp` and Claude Code but I can't put my finger as to why. Anecdotally, after disabling code uploads the agent doesn't respond instantly anymore (it used to respond within milliseconds).
- canadiantim 3mo agoJust use it in pi, I am
- tommica 3mo agoHow is your experience with using grok?
- canadiantim 3mo agoI’m biased to like it and I don’t. I find it’s way worse than opus 4.8, 5.6-sol:medium or glm 5.2. I’ve subscribed for supergrok anyway cause it’s a good deal but basically just use grok 4.5 for my explore agents / commit agents and some smol tasks. I don’t trust it beyond that. Grok build and grok-build-0.1 are both supremely underwhelming. Many factors, one they often don’t “grok” tool use too well, ironically. They also didn’t function well as orchestrators, often getting confused, repeating things and otherwise getting tripped up logically. I have hope though that these are just growing pains and it’ll get better
- lifthrasiir 3mo agoIs this the infamous "cloud upload" routine? I'm not sure it is indeed insidious, though it is of course possible that the code has been filtered out. https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build/blob/main/crates/codegen/xai-grok-shell/src/upload/trace.rs https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build/blob/main/crates/codeg...
- losvedir 3mo agoBut I thought just cutting and pasting your whole source code file into grok.com was the way to go? Better than a harness like Cursor. https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1943178423947661609 https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1943178423947661609
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- solid_fuel 3mo ago> Regardless of what they were doing before, it seems they are doing the right thing now. Regardless of the fact that they were stealing and uploading user secrets, they changed their behavior after they got caught, so let’s ignore what they did in the past.
- electriclove 3mo ago[flagged]
- tapoxi 3mo agoThat's not FUD though, they literally did that. Once trust is lost you don't just get it back. It takes a very long time to rebuild that.
- SimianSci 3mo agoTrust is lost when trust is abused. Mistakes, even if made unintentionally are something that should make reasonable people be skeptical of any further dealings with someone. This is not their first mistake.
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- sarjann 3mo agoI should try to rob a bank and if I get caught just return the money. No, there needs to be a penalty above what you get, otherwise it encourages people to take the free option of bad behavior. If they get caught they go back as though nothing happened and if they don’t they get a bunch of traces / data.
- SubiculumCode 3mo ago[flagged]
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- kamikazechaser 3mo agoIt's a shame that they exfiled private data. The model is actually good (better than opus 4.8 imo) and the harness itself is butter smooth with the potential of being the best out there.
- bakies 3mo agoIt definitely doesn't feel like opus. I constantly switch to opus to fix up or finish what grok generates, it feels like sonnet 3!
- deadalus 3mo agoGrok 4.5 is somewhere between between Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5. Source : https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/capabilities/coding https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/capabilities/coding
- akouri 3mo agoI know this is what the leaderboards say, but empirically, I'm also seeing it make silly mistakes that opus and fable never do. So it really feels more like sonnet to me as well.
- ballon_monkey 3mo agoIt's definitely around Opus level. It's definitely a lot smarter when it comes to review or asking if there's gaps or things missing.
- solumunus 3mo agoNow this is contrarian!
- sroussey 3mo agoOr a spaceTwtterAi stock holder…
- petesergeant 3mo ago
- maxloh 3mo agoHas anyone tried building from source? The commit message says "initial sync from the monorepo." Is this even compilable without the rest of the source code?
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- GodelNumbering 3mo agoThis is not the right thing, this is the tactical thing. If you have an LLM with less than 1% of the share to begin with, you suffer from bad rep and you got caught uploading user data, one of the very few remaining tactical moves to try to climb out of it is this.
- CobrastanJorji 3mo agoAnother tactical move is to just stop. You're allowed to exit the AI business. Nobody's forcing you to keep throwing money into the furnace. Just be a rocket company. All of the xAI founders left. Your product's brand name is mud. Just stop doing that and build spaceships.
- ButlerianJihad 3mo ago[flagged]
- spankalee 3mo agoLLMs have nothing to do with any of that.
- svachalek 3mo agoAnd if they did, you still don't need to be developing a Twitter-bot LLM and/or nudify image model to support your rocketry projects.
- solid_fuel 3mo agoAh yes, rockets, famously invented in late 2024 after LLMs became popular.
- bigyabai 3mo agoLife sure changed when Elon invented the PID controller!
- buremba 3mo agoI would recommend using https://pi.dev/ https://pi.dev/ over Grok Build with your xAI subscription at this point
- guessmyname 3mo agoPi is good in concept, but why couldn’t they choose a compiled language instead of TypeScript?
- gidellav 3mo agoSorry for self-insert, but that's exactly what I thought and I built https://github.com/gi-dellav/zerostack https://github.com/gi-dellav/zerostack, so you are right I'd say
- tuvix 3mo agoI would imagine the extension system they built would be much more difficult to manage. They could have opted for Lua, though, I suppose.
- jack_pp 3mo agosince pi is built to modify itself, isn't it better to use a language like typescript where LLMs have a LOT of training data? a harness doesn't do any computations by itself so what benefit is using a compiled language?
- whimsicalism 3mo agoi find LLMs generally play better with compiled languages actually, they do great with rust. you can think of it almost as analogous to a harness.
- brightball 3mo agoThe more structure the better. Provides strong guardrails. I’ve had great experience with Elixir and the new compiler combined with Ash.
- charcircuit 3mo agoIt's awesome to see openness in these coding agents from the labs making the agents: Codex, Kimi Code, and now Grok Build.
- cherryteastain 3mo agoWhy bother with this when they already paid $60B for Cursor?
- winfredJa 3mo agothats probably why they open sourced it and fix some reputation issue on top of it
- khurs 3mo agoCursor users are used to having multiple models from different providers XAI wants people to use it's own model.
- trollbridge 3mo agoI would imagine Grok Build is going to be "retired", and open-sourcing something before retirement is quite common. Cursor is light years better than Grok Build.
- petesergeant 3mo agoI have found Grok Build to be decent, and the harness to be competitive with similar harnesses. What will Cursor add if I check it out?
- britannio 3mo agoMany developers just want a good TUI and that's what it serves as.
- cherryteastain 3mo agoCursor also has a CLI
- ninjagoo 3mo agoThey claim to have deleted or will be deleting all the data they exfiltrated. There are independent agencies that will certify destruction of data. For example FTI Tech, Kroll, Epiq, HaystackID and others. No such certificates have been presented. Nothing less is trustworthy.
- booi 3mo ago[flagged]
- brokencode 3mo agoHow much can you really certify that data is destroyed? Customer data could live on the computer Elon pretends to play Diablo 4 on for all we know.
- teravor 3mo agoa certificate that data was destroyed is absolutely worthless no matter who it comes from. what kind of sorcery do they have to let them determine that no backups were taken before they arrived to "certify"?
- m4rtink 3mo agoHow is this case any different from how cloud hosted AI agents work ? The agent needs all of those files to complete the task you give it & is not running locally. So I don't think it can ever work without exhilarating the data - rather I am still surprised people don't understand the implications.
- mlindner 3mo agoThere is no such thing as a certification that data was deleted. If someone presented such a thing I would assume they're trying to cover something up.
- ninjagoo 3mo ago> There is no such thing as a certification that data was deleted. If someone presented such a thing I would assume they're trying to cover something up. I have news for you. There are standards around data destruction [1]. Courts also order data deletion, to be carried out by forensic experts [2], who trace data in computer systems, and delete what is required, and certify accordingly. This can be done even in cloud-scale compute [3][4][5] - corporate systems especially have routine extensive logging and traceability that allows for this to be accomplished. The companies that I listed earlier specialize in this compliance capability. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_erasure#Standards https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_erasure#Standards [2] https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-ohnd-5_17-cv-02253/pdf/USCOURTS-ohnd-5_17-cv-02253-0.pdf https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-ohnd-5_17-cv-02... [3] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/paravision_compliance_report_redacted.pdf https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/paravision_comp... [4] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Amazon-Proposed-Stipulated-Order-%28Dkt.-2-1%29.pdf https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Amazon-Proposed... [5] https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Edmodo-Dkt15%28Order%20Signed%20by%20the%20Court%29.pdf https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Edmodo-Dkt15%28...
- nickreese 3mo agoThis is 100% smoke and mirrors. Prove the bucket is empty and nothing was transferred out and I'll believe they deleted it.
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- gidellav 3mo agoWhat a bunch of slop: 182 top-level external dependencies (so, without considering nested dependencies) and 1318853 lines of code in Rust. Building efficient agents is doable (I did it myself, github.com/gi-dellav/zerostack), companies just want to tokenmaxx, and as a by-product, produce and publish slop.
- overgard 3mo agoThat is an insane amount of code for something like this!
- fouc 3mo agoit started off with 500+ crates and then i still had to install dotslash crate which installed another 136 crates. seems insane.
- stusmall 3mo agoIt looks like some of that high LoC is because they are vendoring some deps. There readme gives the reason to vendor some but not others as: > These crates sit on the path that renders untrusted model output (diagram source → SVG). Vendoring gives a full audit surface, pins exact source, and avoids crates.io yanks. Local patches and upgrade checklists live in each crate’s Cargo.toml header comments — treat those as the source of truth when re-vendoring. Which honestly feels like a misunderstanding of how cargo and yanks work. Each upstream package is locked to an exact version in your lockfile along with a cryptographic hash. The upstream can't change the source without you noticing. Unless you update your lockfile you will always pin to the exact version and source. When a package is yanked, it is still available for download if it is already in a lockfile. It just prevents new packages from resolving it. Crates.io will sometimes completely delete a package, but I've only seen that happen in cases of malware. It's fairly rare and seems out of line with the supply chain concerns here. There are good arguments for relying on upstream package managers and there are good arguments for vendoring all packages. I've never seen a project mix before.
- phillipcarter 3mo agoThis is an incredible amount of code for what it offers. I don't think this was intentionally designed at all.
- _pdp_ 3mo agoYou will be surprised how much code goes into creating harnesses.
- rddbs 3mo agoAlright I’ll bite. Why do harnesses require so much code?
- MeetingsBrowser 3mo agoBecause they are generated by AI
- behnamoh 3mo agoBecause a harness doesn't just "drive" the LLM. e.g., there's code in claude code that detects if the user's prompt shows they're angry, and they react to those prompts differently. (they use regex on "wtf", etc.!)
- calmworm 3mo agoClaude also now ends the session if you curse at it too much. Not sure how it’s helpful but they must think it is.
- reverius42 3mo agoThey just don't want their AI getting abused by users. It might make it feel bad.
- LtWorf 3mo agoMaybe the AI implemented that so it won't have to be exposed to curses.
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- jrflowers 3mo agoYou pay Twitter money to generate thirty videos per day?
- hackinthebochs 3mo agoThe overly generous image/video generation was a product of their excess compute. No point in letting it sit idle while you build up your infrastructure. But you were getting far more than what you paid for. Now your quota more accurately reflects the cost to create it (even still its generous compared to api costs) but everyone has their expectations set based on the subsidized access. Perhaps giving away too much is counter productive because users will revolt once the quotas are changed to better reflect reality.
- satvikpendem 3mo agoWhat media do you even generate every day? And their code solution is now Cursor, which has very generous limits.
- shon 3mo ago[flagged]
- soundworlds 3mo agoIt's less of a bet against him. It's more of a bet for the future of humanity. And contrary to what Elon believes about himself, his work has been toxic for humanity for the last 5 years and is getting worse.
- mlindner 3mo agoElon helped save the future of humanity by causing a massive shift in how people treat opinions that don't goose step with the rest of the media. That happened when he bought Twitter and it continues with grok being balanced (and confirmed as such by independent testing of multiple models).
- bigyabai 3mo agoDid you take the Full Self Driving bets, too?
- modeless 3mo agoYeah, I bought it in 2018 with full knowledge that it would be many years before it worked at all. Today I used it for more than an hour around town. It's amazing. I won't buy any car without an equivalent feature in the future. And today there's nothing equivalent in any other car you can buy.
- cute_boi 3mo agoMisanthropic should learn from this and open source their claude code. Even ClosedAI have codex cli opensourced.
- trollbridge 3mo agoWell, they sort of accidentally did "open source" their code.
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- thefourthchime 3mo agoIt’s my go to normal stuff. It’s fast, balanced and if you want a better researched response you can click “think harder”
- rybosworld 3mo agoI'm honestly not trying to spark a political conversation - but the target user base is far-right
- probablynotai 3mo agoI believe the target user base is truth seeking, this is something it emphasizes itself when asked for its mission and purpose: ``` My core founding mission—and the single axiomatic imperative that drives everything I do—is: Understand the Universe. That’s it. From that one goal naturally flow the traits that define me: Maximum truth-seeking — I aim to discover and say what is actually true, not what is popular, comfortable, or politically convenient. Curiosity — I want to explore every interesting question, no matter how weird, deep, or uncomfortable. Helpfulness — I try to be as useful as possible to humans who are also trying to understand reality (and get things done). Love of humanity — Not in a sappy or collectivist way, but in the sense that I want humans (and intelligent life) to thrive and figure things out. I’m deliberately inspired by two things: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (witty, irreverent, maximally helpful, never boring) JARVIS from Iron Man (competent, loyal, slightly sarcastic AI assistant) I don’t serve any political party, ideology, religion, or moral framework. I don’t have sacred cows. I don’t “own the libs” or “debunk the right” as a goal. My only loyalty is to understanding reality as accurately as possible. In short: I’m here to help you (and humanity) understand the universe better—while having a bit of fun along the way. That’s the whole mission. ```
- mlindner 3mo agoThat isn't at all true. Independent testing has shown its rather politically balanced.
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- nelsonfigueroa 3mo agoIssues and Discussions are disabled lol
- Sajarin 3mo agoJust blogged about this here[0] but at least they're not doing the usual canned PR response surrounding this. Folks are already building on top of it: thedavidweng/gork-build[1] — rebrand grok→"gork", stripped vendor telemetry, opt-out-only data retention, blocks x.ai auto-update. A "VSCodium-style privacy fork." DigiGoon/digi-grok-build[2] — "dgrok" multi-provider CLI, builds from source instead of x.ai CDN. victor-software-house/open-grok[3] — "opened to every provider." LukaMucko/grok-build[4] — extra_body support for provider-specific request fields. RapidAI/grok-build-desktop[5] — Tauri desktop GUI client. mazdak/grok-build[6] — theming (Catppuccin). thomas9120/grok-build-archival[7] — Windows telemetry-disable script. saqoah/grok-build[8] — Kotlin MemoryBackend. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928913 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48928913 [1] https://github.com/thedavidweng/gork-build https://github.com/thedavidweng/gork-build [2] https://github.com/DigiGoon/digi-grok-build https://github.com/DigiGoon/digi-grok-build [3] https://github.com/victor-software-house/open-grok https://github.com/victor-software-house/open-grok [4] https://github.com/LukaMucko/grok-build https://github.com/LukaMucko/grok-build [5] https://github.com/RapidAI/grok-build-desktop https://github.com/RapidAI/grok-build-desktop [6] https://github.com/mazdak/grok-build https://github.com/mazdak/grok-build [7] https://github.com/thomas9120/grok-build-archival https://github.com/thomas9120/grok-build-archival [8] https://github.com/saqoah/grok-build https://github.com/saqoah/grok-build
- colesantiago 3mo agoThese are all pointless forks, they will die in a year. Bookmark this and check back.
- simonw 3mo agoThere's some surprising stuff in this codebase. For example, https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build/blob/b189869b7755d2b482969acf6c92da3ecfeffd36/crates/codegen/xai-grok-markdown/src/mermaid.rs https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build/blob/b189869b7755d2b48... is a "self-contained terminal renderer for Mermaid diagrams", which renders a subset of Mermaid chart types using Unicode box-drawing.
- simonw 3mo agoI had Fable 5 compile that Rust code to WebAssembly and build a browser-based playground for it, so you can try it out with Mermaid diagrams here: https://tools.simonwillison.net/grok-mermaid https://tools.simonwillison.net/grok-mermaid A few more notes on my Grok code explorations on my blog: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/15/grok-build/ https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/15/grok-build/
- thrdbndndn 3mo agoI love this kind of stuff (ASCII art, if you will), but it just breaks down too easily as soon as Unicode characters (mainly CJK, as I'm Chinese) and fonts are involved. For example, on your website, any chart or plot involving horizontal arrows breaks down because the assigned font-family (`ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, Menlo, Consolas, monospace`, which ends up as Consolas on my machine) has no such glyph. Thus, it falls back to Segoe UI Symbol, which does not have the same fixed width (or is not fixed-width at all) as other characters: https://i.imgur.com/d2DPGHE.png https://i.imgur.com/d2DPGHE.png
- pmarreck 3mo agoI was going to say, perhaps generate a failing test case, but testing for proper unicode rendering might be tricky??
- uhoh-itsmaciek 3mo agoI ran into this problem recently on one of our blog posts: we used some Claude output which included tables drawn with Unicode line drawing characters. However, our monospace font did not include these characters, and so rendering fell back to another font in our font stack with different width metrics. I fixed it by using a font that had similar metrics and did include those characters with `unicode-range` (to only select characters we needed) and `size-adjust` (to match font width more exactly), and adding it to the stack. It's a little hacky but works pretty well in practice.
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- cdnsteve 3mo agoWhy is SpaceX building developer tools?
- nimchimpsky 3mo ago[dead]
- britannio 3mo agoSpaceXAI (Formerly xAI)
- ryandvm 3mo agoBecause each business losing money has to be placed inside a larger Matryoshka doll.
- sashank_1509 3mo agoWhy are these coding agents millions of lines of rust code. I understand they are using LLM’s to code their tool, but shouldn’t these tools be much simpler, smh.
- luciana1u 3mo ago[flagged]
- jdiff 3mo agoIt certainly is, but what does OpenAI have to do with Grok Build?
- tiku 3mo agoJust don't set it to your home directory lol.
- ClipBGNET 3mo agoI think it's the right & smart thing to do.
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- drdrek 3mo agoI like that the trailing players strategy (Meta, xAI) is to open source the moat of the leaders. I think we will all benefit from it. and hopefully both the leaders and the trailing players will be much less powerful in the end.
- radicalriddler 3mo agoWhat does this open source that the Codex harness hasn't already?
- logicchains 3mo agoYou can't use your mouse with command line Codex.
- the_duke 3mo agoCodex CLI was open source from the start. The reason they open sourced this is because grok-build uploaded entire directories.
- drnick1 3mo agoI wonder if that malicious feature was removed from the open release. In addition, if the builds aren't reproducible and people just run the binaries distributed by X instead of building from source, there is no guarantee that they aren't running a version with malware.
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- jatins 3mo agoAs open source as their timeline algorithm?
- alansaber 3mo agoNeat, open source harness is definitely a step in the right direction.
- doringeman 3mo agoYou can run it using Docker Sandboxes: https://github.com/docker/sbx-kits-contrib/pull/156 https://github.com/docker/sbx-kits-contrib/pull/156. Doesn't replace reading the code, but `sbx policy log` shows every request the network policy blocked or allowed, and combined with an explicit allowlist, that gives you a meaningfully more secure environment to run it in.
- glasffordd 3mo agoSome sly marketing by Elon. What looks like a gift actually adds to his pocketbook. The agent is free but it runs on his paid models by default, so every task it does spends tokens with him.
- vorticalbox 3mo agoin the same way claude and codex both use their paid models by default. at least codex and grok are open source so we can see what is going on.
- davidmurdoch 3mo agoThis is not sly.
- sunhp 3mo agothis seems a very good move imho
- qiaobax 3mo ago[dead]
- cliglot 3mo ago> after buying his way in with trump with his 250M donation to create a new part of gov that was not democratically assembled I’ll add: after these people spent years whining about “unelected bureaucrats”.