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I've been using grok 4.5 with grok build soon after it came out and dropped claude. primarily for personal code. It communicates better. While that might not

I've been using grok 4.5 with grok build soon after it came out and dropped claude. primarily for personal code. It communicates better. While that might not sound like a big deal it is. It doesn't give me a wall of text, tells me what I need to know and I'll make the actual decisions. It is very quick as well which means the sessions are far more interactive, I'll be steering it more. I sometimes cross check with codex and sol, but the daily driver is grok for me. I found it has improved my productivity and output over claude where it felt like claude was giving me work to do. furthermore with the recent claude watermarking thing, I'd rather use grok or openai. If anyone is curious download grok cli and throw a couple of prompts at it. you'll be surprised.

Rover222 2mo ago
Agreed, I've been using it on personal projects, and prefer it to Claude and GPT at the moment.
nopurpose 2mo ago
Sounds like a caveman skill.
zingababba 2mo ago
Same, sad how far Claude has fallen. I still think Claude code patterns are amazing so I just port those.
- 3abiton 2mo ago
  > Same, sad how far Claude has fallen. I still think Claude code patterns are amazing so I just port those. I am curious, is that a plugin, or skill?
soVeryTired 2mo ago
Out of interest, do Musk's politics impact your decision on whether or not to use Grok? I'd be interested to know where folks lie on the (Agree / Disagree) and (Use / Don't use) axes.
- gafferongames 2mo ago
  Will never use any product Musk is involved in creating for the rest of my life.
  - JKCalhoun 2mo ago
    Yeah, I'm in the same boat. No StarLink, no Grok, no X, no Tesla (that one is easy though—I typically spend about $15K when I buy a car). He's become a toxic "brand".
- tsegratis 2mo ago
  i read an independent study that found other ai were all left of center (how ever one measures that, sentiment analysis normalized to a given population??). they said grok was evenly left/right split but what's to validate any given population as centrist anyway they suggested the ai opinion drift was caused by internet demographics not directly reflecting actual population i.e. California publishes more etc
  - michaelmrose 2mo ago
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    - AussieWog93 2mo ago
      Man, I got ready to debunk this but just questioned my life choices instead. Why the fuck am I glued to my smartphone arguing with people posting shit like this instead of spending time with my daughters, creating new things or looking after my own body and soul. Michael, please copy your comment verbatim into any LLM with search capabilities and ask for primary sources that confirm or deny your statements, and break down the beliefs by party. Then, use your real flesh and meat brain to ponder where your (not other peoples' - your own) beliefs about this came from, and what their motivations for blasting them at you could be. Goodbye HN, I think I'm done with this site for good.
      - 2mo ago
rubslopes 2mo ago
I've never used Grok, but I'm very dissatisfied with the writing style of frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic. I only use them for coding now. ChatGPT is very long-winded, sometimes producing multiple bullet point lists for a simple answer. Claude is full of mannerisms: 'not merely x, but y', 'Here's where it gets interesting', 'the real question is', etc.
indigodaddy 2mo ago
Is grok build the same as grok cli?
Gud 2mo ago
I also don't get the Claude hype. I use ChatGPT for coding and Claude for review. Claude has just gotten annoying, and is making a lot of assumptions. Claude suggests something, then later on suddenly it's something I wanted all along. ChatGPT is far superior to Claude. I will try Grok.

Rover222 2mo ago

Agreed, I've been using it on personal projects, and prefer it to Claude and GPT at the moment.

nopurpose 2mo ago

Sounds like a caveman skill.

zingababba 2mo ago

Same, sad how far Claude has fallen. I still think Claude code patterns are amazing so I just port those.

3abiton 2mo ago
> Same, sad how far Claude has fallen. I still think Claude code patterns are amazing so I just port those. I am curious, is that a plugin, or skill?

soVeryTired 2mo ago

Out of interest, do Musk's politics impact your decision on whether or not to use Grok? I'd be interested to know where folks lie on the (Agree / Disagree) and (Use / Don't use) axes.

gafferongames 2mo ago
Will never use any product Musk is involved in creating for the rest of my life.
- JKCalhoun 2mo ago
  Yeah, I'm in the same boat. No StarLink, no Grok, no X, no Tesla (that one is easy though—I typically spend about $15K when I buy a car). He's become a toxic "brand".
tsegratis 2mo ago
i read an independent study that found other ai were all left of center (how ever one measures that, sentiment analysis normalized to a given population??). they said grok was evenly left/right split but what's to validate any given population as centrist anyway they suggested the ai opinion drift was caused by internet demographics not directly reflecting actual population i.e. California publishes more etc
- michaelmrose 2mo ago
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  - AussieWog93 2mo ago
    Man, I got ready to debunk this but just questioned my life choices instead. Why the fuck am I glued to my smartphone arguing with people posting shit like this instead of spending time with my daughters, creating new things or looking after my own body and soul. Michael, please copy your comment verbatim into any LLM with search capabilities and ask for primary sources that confirm or deny your statements, and break down the beliefs by party. Then, use your real flesh and meat brain to ponder where your (not other peoples' - your own) beliefs about this came from, and what their motivations for blasting them at you could be. Goodbye HN, I think I'm done with this site for good.
    - 2mo ago

rubslopes 2mo ago

I've never used Grok, but I'm very dissatisfied with the writing style of frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic. I only use them for coding now. ChatGPT is very long-winded, sometimes producing multiple bullet point lists for a simple answer. Claude is full of mannerisms: 'not merely x, but y', 'Here's where it gets interesting', 'the real question is', etc.

indigodaddy 2mo ago

Is grok build the same as grok cli?

Gud 2mo ago

I also don't get the Claude hype. I use ChatGPT for coding and Claude for review. Claude has just gotten annoying, and is making a lot of assumptions. Claude suggests something, then later on suddenly it's something I wanted all along. ChatGPT is far superior to Claude. I will try Grok.