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.

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soVeryTired 24 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

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 20 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Will never use any product Musk is involved in creating for the rest of my life.
	▲	tsegratis 12 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		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

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Rover222 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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zingababba 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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

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nopurpose 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Sounds like a caveman skill.