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In terms of using experience, I found Grok 4.5 to be way more pleasant to use than GPT 5.6 Sol and Claude 4.8/5. It just gets to the point, and is super fast an

by dllu 2mo ago

In terms of using experience, I found Grok 4.5 to be way more pleasant to use than GPT 5.6 Sol and Claude 4.8/5. It just gets to the point, and is super fast and concise, no yapping. That's how AI agents should be imo. None of the weird "Claude ipsum" jargon like "load-bearing" and "stale folklore" or GPT 5.6-isms like "focused regression" and "provenance".

christophilus 2mo ago
What harness are you using?
- mpalczewski 2mo ago
  I've been using the grok cli, and this is what I love about it.
- simplyluke 2mo ago
  These differences are prominent even in the same harness (cursor) in my experience. Opus is wordy to the point of exhaustion, GPT is better, Grok is very direct.
sedivy94 2mo ago
I’m not doing any coding with AI, so I’m the odd one out. Mostly use it for research: information retrieval and grokking technical concepts for exam prep. Does that fall within “knowledge work”? Anywho - I switched to Opus last week and felt torn. It’s displayed somewhat higher competency in some responses, and the artifacts (diagrams) are splendid, but I despise its writing style. Grok is indeed fact/truth oriented, direct, and less personable (which I vastly prefer). Maybe I’ll switch back to Grok.
scrollop 2mo ago
And you get it to run the answer by "What would Elon do?" Before outputting, so you get the best of both worlds :/
Oarch 2mo ago
I remain to this day shocked at how good the Grok speech-to-text functionality is. The conversation mode in the app is pretty buggy, but the microphone button is a godsend.
awakeasleep 2mo ago
You can fix chatgpt by changing the personality to “efficient” and setting the sliders for warmth, enthusiasm, and emoji to minimum
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timcobb 2mo ago
GPT doesn't yap at all
- guywithahat 2mo ago
  I don't think it's as significant anymore but there was a point where GPT would write 8 paragraphs to say yes, while Grok would literally just say "Yes." They've converged a bit (Grok now says more, GPT says less) but I'd argue Grok is still more efficient while Claude/GPT are more wordy (and often needlessly)
hn111 2mo ago
You hit the nail on the head, and it matters.

by dllu 2mo ago

christophilus 2mo ago

What harness are you using?

mpalczewski 2mo ago
I've been using the grok cli, and this is what I love about it.
simplyluke 2mo ago
These differences are prominent even in the same harness (cursor) in my experience. Opus is wordy to the point of exhaustion, GPT is better, Grok is very direct.

sedivy94 2mo ago

I’m not doing any coding with AI, so I’m the odd one out. Mostly use it for research: information retrieval and grokking technical concepts for exam prep. Does that fall within “knowledge work”? Anywho - I switched to Opus last week and felt torn. It’s displayed somewhat higher competency in some responses, and the artifacts (diagrams) are splendid, but I despise its writing style. Grok is indeed fact/truth oriented, direct, and less personable (which I vastly prefer). Maybe I’ll switch back to Grok.

scrollop 2mo ago

And you get it to run the answer by "What would Elon do?" Before outputting, so you get the best of both worlds :/

Oarch 2mo ago

I remain to this day shocked at how good the Grok speech-to-text functionality is. The conversation mode in the app is pretty buggy, but the microphone button is a godsend.

awakeasleep 2mo ago

You can fix chatgpt by changing the personality to “efficient” and setting the sliders for warmth, enthusiasm, and emoji to minimum

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timcobb 2mo ago

GPT doesn't yap at all

guywithahat 2mo ago
I don't think it's as significant anymore but there was a point where GPT would write 8 paragraphs to say yes, while Grok would literally just say "Yes." They've converged a bit (Grok now says more, GPT says less) but I'd argue Grok is still more efficient while Claude/GPT are more wordy (and often needlessly)

hn111 2mo ago

You hit the nail on the head, and it matters.