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I have never met a single human being who uses Grok for coding
by nylonstrung 2mo ago
I have never met a single human being who uses Grok for coding
- sidcool 2mo agoHello. Nice to meet you.
- supriyo-biswas 2mo agoI'm only being forced to use it at $WORK since some people overran their Cursor bill, so everyone gets Cursor Auto enabled by default which routes to Grok 4.5.
- kvirani 2mo agoFolks working in US govt tend to, based on convos I've had with one such person.
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- dogmayor 2mo agoNot the best endorsement given the current US gov
- nozzlegear 2mo agoYeah, sounds a bit like a selection bias, i.e. the people who managed to survive the firings by DOGE and the current admin are the kind of people who might prefer Grok.
- dfedbeef 2mo agoThey make good stuff
- Gigachad 2mo agoGrok probably doesn’t object when the government asks it how to bomb schools.
- visopsys 2mo agoI use. I used to be a Claude user. Since trying Grok 4.5 and especially Grok 4.6, I don't want to go back to Claude any more (I have early access to 4.6). Grok is 3x+ faster than Claude and I can't tell the diff in engineering work quality. As an engineer, speed is important to me.
- bigyabai 2mo agoFor $30/month, I'd expect it to have higher usage limits than Claude Code and Codex.
- visopsys 2mo agoIt really does. I felt like I could have spent $1000+ api token on claude for the amount of work on my $30 grok subscription.
- drewnick 2mo agoAn hour in, I've been running four terminals full bore on my $20/mo Grok sub and I'm at 9% for the week. Codex or Claude would easily have hit 5-hour or weekly limits.
- insane_dreamer 2mo agoI'm really not burning tokens fast enough. I use Claude a lot, daily, and have yet to hit my a ceiling with my Max/100 subscription. Maybe because I like to verify its outputs and spend a lot of time iterating to get better outcomes. Presumably if I just let it "do its thing" I'd burn more tokens and "get more done" but I'd lose my grasp on what's in the code base.
- rubyn00bie 2mo agoBig same here with Claude but I’m on the $200 sub. I let Fable run for roughly 4 hours and still didn’t hit the session limit. I suppose if I was running more in parallel it would be easier to hit, but I’m not particularly good at focusing on more than one thing at the same time (even if I’m waiting on an agent to do the work).
- DetroitThrow 2mo agoI've tried it on my "let's run every model in parallel and see which finds more edge cases" type of tasks, and Grok 4.5 was really behind Opus/ChatGPT but ahead of Gemini - despite having a strong showing on benchmarks. That makes me really skeptical of it being GPT5.6-tier, much less Fable-tier, based on some of these benchmarks alone. But I'll test here shortly.
- DetroitThrow 2mo agoIt's still not as good as GPT5.6 or Opus5 but it's better than KimiK3. Good job xAI team.
- busch_j 2mo agoA bunch of SWEs at my work use it as their primary model. We have Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor with essentially no cap on spend (top guy is spending over 10K a month on AI at API prices), and he hasn't had his hand slapped. So it's not like they are using it purely because it's cheaper. I think people like to use it for its speaking style, pretty solid performance, and its speed.
- redox99 2mo agoThat's pretty surprising. Idk about Grok 4.6, but Grok 4.5 was clearly below Fable, Opus 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol.
- logicchains 2mo agoIt's much faster, so if you're not doing something cutting-edge, or you're doing the planning yourself and just using the LLM for implementation, the speed benefit outweighs the extra smarts of Fable/Opus5/Sol.
- rlt 2mo agoIs there a good way to auto switch between models for planning/implementation?
- esafak 2mo agoOpenCode can.
- phoghed 2mo agoPretty much every coding harness allows you to define skills and agents so yes
- rubyn00bie 2mo agoIn most coding harnesses you can just instruct the agent to do so. When using Fable, I often say things like: > Save your context. Always use a subagent (Opus 5 or GPT 5.6) for performing the implementation and then review the work yourself. You are the orchestrator and coordinator it’s up to you to ensure a cohesive final result. I’ve done more or less the same thing with other agents/versions but with Fable consuming usage credits/tokens so quickly I do it more regularly than usual. I know people who will specify Composer (to my chagrin) as the implementing agent. Addendum: this really goes a long way, and I can use a single chat session for days before I get into the context danger zone and need to compact/summarize.
- LeBit 2mo agoI refuse to use that product because of the parent company.
- Recurecur 2mo ago[flagged]
- rootusrootus 2mo agoDo you not ever 'vote with your wallet'?
- forestrywat 2mo agoIt's not virtue signaling. People are allowed to have morals. And they are allowed to act in ways that align with those moral beliefs. > do you use Apple equipment despite Apple’s use of Chinese slave labor? If someone said they didn't buy Apple because of this, I'd support them in that too. People. Are. Complicated. We're allowed to have beliefs, we're allowed to have beliefs that aren't internally consistent. You gotta get over the idea that people aren't genuine believers in their beliefs.
- qwerpy 2mo agoThe issue is that this is supposed to be a tech discussion forum and many of us don’t want to be repeatedly beaten over the head with other people’s politics. Plenty of other places to be political, we just wish this wasn’t one of them.
- solid_fuel 2mo ago> The issue is that this is supposed to be a tech discussion forum and many of us don’t want to be repeatedly beaten over the head with other people’s politics. Maybe that wouldn’t be a problem if Elon Musk would lay off the ketamine and shut his fucking mouth sometime. But instead he spends all day tweeting about how anyone he doesn’t like is a “traitor to western civilization” and calling for executions. Why is it surprising that people are reacting to his words and actions? You want the politics to go away, get a CEO that doesn’t make everything political.
- jm4 2mo agoI have. He was using it due to philosophical reasons the same way many people have philosophical reasons for avoiding it. I don't know how many people are like that, but it's not exactly where you want to position your product if you're a business. Personally - and I know I'm not alone with this sentiment based on comments I see on this site - I wouldn't touch Grok no matter how good or cheap it is. I don't trust Elon and I don't want to give another dollar to the world's richest person who turns around and uses the money to interfere with elections. The guy I know uses it for essentially the same reason I won't use it.
- gofreddygo 2mo agoThis a a very mature, stable perspective of the world we live in. Everyone wont agree with me all the time, I don't have to either. And thats ok.
- inferniac 2mo ago>who turns around and uses the money to interfere with elections thats a very dumb reason considering all rich people do it, most are just not as open about it as Musk
- MisterKent 2mo ago"Everyone's doing it" presented with no evidence is just you trying to make yourself feel better for: - using from - driving a Tesla - voting for Trump It's a really, really easy line to draw in the sand: don't support openly corrupt individuals. It's absolutely true there's money in politics. To call all money in politics equally corrupt because Bernie got a dollar to have dinner with someone vs Elon effectively directly buying votes.... A complete lack of nuance here. And I wouldn't be surprised if corporations / super rich WANT you to think like that. The more defeatist the mentality becomes the more we just accept whatever they do next.
- jm4 2mo agoThere's a big difference between quiet donations to a PAC - not that that's good either - and what Elon did. He literally paid for votes, likely in violation of the law. He poured more money into U.S. elections than anyone has before. He and Trump both made strange, cryptic statements about Elon's role in Pennsylvania with the voting machines that has caused people to reasonably wonder if they somehow manipulated the election. Whether he did or not, the innuendo alone is not ok. Then he did what he did in Germany. Don't even get me started on DOGE or his Starlink shenanigans in Ukraine. That's before we even start talking about the models themselves. He claims to want "unbiased" models, but he very clearly has a distorted view of the world and has repeatedly demonstrated a desire and willingness to bend the world to his will. I don't want to use a model that is so obviously suspect. Not to mention, his models repeatedly produce racist, Nazi-like propaganda. IMO, he is, at best, a clueless amateur masquerading as an expert and running into problems a more careful person manages to mostly avoid. At worst... well, you get the picture.
- peder 2mo agoDoes it matter? Why turn it into a popularity contest?
- Recurecur 2mo ago[flagged]
- locknitpicker 2mo ago> I have never met a single human being who uses Grok for coding Me too. The only people I ever saw using grok were using it by accident as they used copilot in auto mode and noticed some prompts were thrown it's way. I saw far more people using Mistral than grok.
- treexs 2mo agothe new models are quite good, give it a shot
- nomilk 2mo agoI had a security incident the other day and Grok was the only model that would help. Claude and GPT refused on ethical grounds and only gave general advice. In an emergency, I'd only trust Grok. However, that's the only time I used Grok for coding (since Opus 4.8 it would take a lot to get me to switch away from Anthropic)
- gessha 2mo agoWith Claude I start having to limit the context I give it about my problem in case it trips up the safeguards. :(
- SwellJoe 2mo agoThe "safety" guardrails in Anthropic and OpenAI models are becoming a noticeable problem for security work. And, the reason I'm keeping my Kimi subscription even though it's not a great deal; Kimi subscriptions are quite stingy for the price, but K3 will do vulnerability analysis and make a PoC without requiring you to be on the approved list of Fortune 500 or government entities that have access to Mythos or Daybreak. I'm not touching Grok. But there are alternatives to Anthropic and OpenAI that don't refuse to do security work.
- mohamedkoubaa 2mo agoI use it because it's cheap and good enough
- inferniac 2mo agoit only very recently became competetive, if they proceed with improvements (and beating others on price) their share will grow
- homakov 2mo agoonce my codex/claude weekly limit was gone, i gave it a try. It was surprisingly good, not dumb in any way, and fast. I now require it as a part of 3-of-3 quorum with any codebase change.
- bitcurious 2mo ago> I now require it as a part of 3-of-3 quorum with any codebase change Say more about this.
- homakov 2mo agomacOS Codex app is my main agent (its very polished). When it makes changes or code scans i ask it to run claude -p plus cursor-cli plus grok cli for double checking. This way bias of one model can be overruled by quorum.
- petesergeant 2mo agoI am using it for code reviews, and it regularly surfaces stuff that neither Sol or Fable do.
- unselect5917 2mo agoI have. Why do you put faith in anecdotal evidence and a sample size of one?
- SkyBelow 2mo agoBack in the day (in AI time) GitHub Copilot had Grok on the 0 github-token cost and I found it to be the best of the 0 github-token models for when my budget was out. Then they went to a multiplier that was not competitive and I haven't look back again. Been meaning too, but for personal use, Deepseek flash is so cheap I haven't felt like spending money elsewhere.
- thenatureboy 2mo agoWell now you have so you can retire this talking point
- sergiotapia 2mo agoHello
- mvdtnz 2mo agoI've never met anyone who uses grok for anything. I had assumed it was a Twitter/X thing and only the truly lost souls remain on that website.
- Rover222 2mo ago[flagged]
- vlucas 2mo agoI use Grok 4.5 High Fast in Cursor (Agentic window), and it's a genuinely great model. I don't give a shit about Elon's politics in the same way I don't give a shit about Dario or Altman's politics.
- Rover222 2mo agoHell yeah
- satvikpendem 2mo agoEveryone on r/cursor as their pricing is now a very good deal if you use Grok and Composer.
- fierycatnet 2mo agoWhen Grok 3 came out it was pretty good at the time. I had several simple front end demos and Grok 3 was better than GPT/Claude at the time.