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Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window

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Re: Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window

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It's a shame that the top comments are focusing more on Elon Musk, his personality and politics rather than the quality of the model per se. Speaking about Elon, regardless of what you think of him, he really does get things done, despite naysayers -- SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink and even get Trump elected ( despite subsequent fallout) etc. Even Twitter is finding a second life by becoming a haven for the free speech adv…

In my understanding of the hacker ethos, hackers appear to be genuinely nice people who mean to do good for society and regular people. Elon does not align with those values according to some people so they reject him and his activities.

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Re: Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window

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I like grok for noncoding stuff. I find it hasn't been tuned for "Safety" (meaning it isn't tuned much for political correctness). It also seems good at making images and stories up well. I run some choose your own adventures stories with my kids through it. We tell it who each of their characters are and what the theme is for the night and grok gives them each a section of story and 4 choices. They also have the opt…

> it isn't tuned much for political correctness It was tuned to be edgy and annoying though (I mean his general style of speech not necessarily the content).

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Re: Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window

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It's a shame that the top comments are focusing more on Elon Musk, his personality and politics rather than the quality of the model per se. Speaking about Elon, regardless of what you think of him, he really does get things done, despite naysayers -- SpaceX, Tesla, Neuralink and even get Trump elected ( despite subsequent fallout) etc. Even Twitter is finding a second life by becoming a haven for the free speech adv…

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Not defending anyone, but by that logic, you shouldn’t be using any Chinese models either.

If I had to pick between a Chinese model and an American model based on the country's politics it would be China every time.

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In my understanding of the hacker ethos, hackers appear to be genuinely nice people who mean to do good for society and regular people. Elon does not align with those values according to some people so they reject him and his activities.

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Besides the obvious right wing interference in politics, star link weaponization in some countries - how can anybody stomach the saving-humanity-agenda while running a major social media unresponsiveliy without caring of moderation, its consequences for real people?

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I don't think you can compare the usual internal backstabbing between executives with someone who literally directed and participated in acts of the US Government, and keep saying and doing things to help and nurture a certain side of the political spectrum.

Both do both.

Did Sam Altman lead a government agency and camp in the Oval Office for months too? Degrees matter.

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Going off OpenRouter's rankings ( https://openrouter.ai/rankings ), Grok Code Fast 1 is the most used model by a significant margin, and since those metrics are calculated as of this week, that's after providers stopped giving free promotional access to it. Grok 4 Fast is #5 on that list which was never free. In terms of models, Grok 4 Fast has essentially zero restrictions on safety, which a) makes it unusable for m…

It's the only model that lets you do gooner shit. That's why the usage is highly skewed. You can just call a horse a horse if you see one.

this is a code model, not the general one

Re: Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window

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Anyone can make a long context window. The key is if your model can make effective use of it or not.

If a model is not making use of the whole context window - shouldn't that be very noticeable when the prompt is code?

For example when querying a model to refactor a piece of code - would that really work if it forgets about one part of the code while it refactors another part?

I concatenate a lot of code files into a single prompt multiple times a day and ask LLMs to refactor them, implement features or review the code.

So far, I never had the impression that filling the context window with a lot of code causes problems.

I also use very long lists of instructions on code style on top of my prompts. And the LLMs seem to be able to follow all of them just fine.

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