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Not mentioning Grok 4.6 here is a crime. Fast and accurate. And it can communicate, unlike the gobbledygook that comes out of Claude.
by trjordan 1mo ago
Not mentioning Grok 4.6 here is a crime. Fast and accurate.
And it can communicate, unlike the gobbledygook that comes out of Claude.
- ceejayoz 1mo ago> Not mentioning Grok 4.6 here is a crime. Not yet. Don't give the guy ideas.
- king_crimson 1mo agoBeen working a lot recently with Grok 4.6 for implementation and gpt 5.6 sol for review. Worked really good so far.
- jmaker 1mo agoWhy not the other way around?
- felixgallo 1mo ago[flagged]
- kev009 1mo ago[flagged]
- esalman 1mo agoLet me give you an example of the money laundering operation. Due to USAID shutdown, Bangladesh went from ~$500M in US assistance to ~$71M, with bilateral health funding dropping ~97% in some analyses. Over 100 projects (~$550M) suspended overnight. 20k–50k development workers laid off (1,000+ at icddr,b, an award winning health research institution alone). TB programs (major USAID focus) largely halted. Bangladesh is high-burden; prior gains in case detection and falling death rates are at risk of reversing, plus higher chance of drug resistance from incomplete treatment. Immunization, maternal/child health, community clinics, nutrition, water/sanitation, and gender-based violence services sharply reduced. Child protection funding down ~36%. Food rations in Rohinhya camp, the largest refugee camp in the world, halved for >1M people; health and education services cut. Now you can argue that US does not have any kind of obligation to send 500M to Bangladesh. But it sent it anyway, for years, and then DJT came and broke promises. The inflated price you pay at gas station, groceries, and in interest when you're borrowing money, is a result of those broken promises.
- Auracle 1mo agoI’m sorry, but if I’m giving someone who is - at best - an acquaintance of mine $50 a month out of the goodness of my heart and then one day decide to stop, that’s not a broken promise. If that acquaintance got angry at me about stopping I’d get pretty upset back. I really don’t understand what link you think there is between USAID spending being cut and inflation. Gas prices are obviously Iran. Everything else started years ago.
- esalman 1mo agoInflation is high because interest rates are high. Interest rates are high because top holders of US Treasury bonds like Japan, UK, China, are all dumping bonds. Why do you think they're doing that?
- technotony 1mo agoInterest rates are high because the government is running a large deficit
- kev009 1mo agoExpecting an onslaught of cash as some permanent way of being, especially given the fickleness (and fragility) of any state let alone political regime is an incredibly daft move. I don't care if it's Europe or Israel or Bangladesh, all this is ultimately graft that comes back to bite the people taxed and sent to wars to enable it. You make an adjacent comment that insinuates the US economy is basically bunk, which means the free lunch is over anyway.
- esalman 1mo agoSo it's a problem when a poverty striken nation expect aid to combat child mortality, but shelling out $150m on Juicero or $500m on Theranos is fine? Please try to answer without sounding like a psychopath.
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- jubilanti 1mo agoYou know that a lot of that was the CIA and others using USAID as a front, right?
- ethin 1mo agoAs Wikipedia likes to say: [citation needed]
- antihipocrat 1mo agoBy this logic everyone should have their own impact website. The suggestion that everyone right now not giving a meaningful percentage of their income to save a life is responsible for ending that life, is ridiculous.
- esalman 1mo agoNot everyone should have an impact website because not everyone is capable of causing 88 deaths per hour. Scale matters. Take Flock for example. Reading license plate is legal. But when at done at scale, it's a massive loophole into violation of 4th amendment. Based on how much energy average Americans use, maybe they are responsible for causing adverse effects elsewhere in the world. USAID could exist as a means to undo some of that. It does not anymore.
- leobg 1mo agoCalling another person a monster because you disagree with them (or what you heard about them from third parties) is not the pinnacle of civility. Just think about what you’re saying here. Monster: “Malformed animal or human, creature afflicted with a birth defect”. You don’t mean this literally, do you? You may want to spend a moment to think about what kind of company you’re putting yourself in with such wording and such thinking.
- junto 1mo agoThe person you are replying to maybe should have better referred to him as having “no moral compass”, which I believe is quite accurate.
- alasdair_ 1mo agoElon has a moral compass. The problem is that it seems to always tell him whatever he wants to do is the morally correct thing. It’s worse than no compass - his is faulty.
- elmer2 1mo agoI can't wait until you research the people responsible for Chinese models....
- fooster 1mo agoThey’re monsters? Did they shutter an agency which caused the death on how many millions again?
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- slopinthebag 1mo agoIt costs roughly $3,000 to $5,000 to save a single life (averaging about 0.0002 to 0.0003 lives per dollar) via interventions like malaria prevention or vitamin supplementation. How much money do you have in savings? How much money do you spend on non-essentials? I’d like to calculate how many people you’ve “murdered”.
- felixgallo 1mo agoSo we as a country have, for many decades, decided that things like 'soft power' exist. It turns out, and this has been borne out by many years of relative peace and prosperity, that if you don't shit on the world, alienate your neighbors, start ill-advised wars, and instead help prevent global disease pandemics and feed people so that they don't become destabilizing terrorists out of necessity, benefits accrue. See every history textbook ever for more information here. Hope this helps.
- slopinthebag 1mo agoThat is completely irrelevant to the discussion. Serious question, how many people, by your own standards, have you had killed because you haven't contributed money that you had the capacity for? Why should we hold you at a lesser standard than anyone else?
- felixgallo 1mo agoyour argument is obviously ridiculous and you should feel bad about it.
- slopinthebag 1mo agoOf course, because it’s your argument.
- bdangubic 1mo agoI would not use Grok if it paid me per token… wild wild stuff…
- mediaman 1mo agoAs a coda to this, anyone using grok 4.6 via API pricing should be aware that while their headline pricing is good, the pricing that actually matters is pretty bad. Their cache read costs are $0.50 per million, or 25% of the cost of uncached reads. The industry standard is a 90% discount, so cache costs you 10% of uncached. So that means 5.6 Sol actually costs less per million cache reads - $0.40/million. If you are doing a lot of agentic work where the vast bulk of your token consumption will be cached input reads, you won't get the expected cost savings from Grok. I imagine this is the result of some problem in their serving infrastructure that I hope they will fix, because then the pricing will become actually strong. (The other possibility is that they bet on distracting people with good headline prices assuming they'd miss the bad cache pricing, but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on that.)
- thefourthchime 1mo agoI’ll agree with this. I liked grok build, but cost-wise, it’s just not competitive with cursor and codex Personally, I’ve switched to cursor ultra, which picks between about five models to do whatever you want. It's weird not to pick the best model all the time, if you can. But I got so frustrated with GPT-5.6 spending forever and then doing the wrong thing and making bugs. I'd rather have auto do the wrong thing fast and make bugs and then it can fix them. It's a trade-off, but I found the speed better. And you can always switch to a better model if you don't trust It.
- logicallee 1mo agoI agree that it's fast and accurate, but Grok 4.6 was released only 10 days ago so you can't blame someone for not trying it yet. (Versus many months at the frontier level for Claude and ChatGPT.) Here's a quick review I just posted if anyone's interested: https://taonexus.com/publicfiles/aug2026/grok-4-6-review/ https://taonexus.com/publicfiles/aug2026/grok-4-6-review/
- alasdair_ 1mo agoElon burned too many bridges to warrant ever supporting anything he is associated with ever again.
- timr 1mo agoSure, you can let politics dominate everything you do. Or you can realize that SpaceX is a massive (public) company with thousands of employees, and millions of shareholders, all of whom have their own opinions and goals, just like any other corporation. Competition is good. Excluding a leading player in the market because you don’t like Elon Musk is…something.
- seanmcdirmid 1mo agoIf politics isn’t a concern, why not just use deepseek?
- timr 1mo agoI am trying all of them. At this time, for me, Grok hits the sweet spot of quality, speed, cost and ease of use. I’m absolutely “hot money” when it comes to coding models. These things are commodities.
- thefourthchime 1mo agoI recently tried a Cursor ultra and Grokbot. Holy shit, dude. Half the coding I do is for my phone now because Cursor Ultra agents have their own VMs that are spun up specifically for each project. Grok bot has a bunch of agents that'll share a VM and they can do pretty much anything you can do digitally. Right on I have them checking slick deals every morning for a pellet smoker. I had it book a date night for me. I had it fix one of my projects by rebuilding my website and republishing it and then checking one of the container runs to see if it has errors on it. I had a call different banks to figure out which phone navigation tree to get through and put someone on the phone for me, and then call me The list just goes on and on.
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- nnevatie 1mo agoGrok, is this true?