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Re: Grok Build is open source

#171

I would recommend using https://pi.dev/ over Grok Build with your xAI subscription at this point

Pi is good in concept, but why couldn’t they choose a compiled language instead of TypeScript?

I imagine because they want to support plugins, and plugins in compiled language are a lot less natural than plugins in languages like TypeScript or Python.

Re: Grok Build is open source

#172

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Another tactical move is to just stop. You're allowed to exit the AI business. Nobody's forcing you to keep throwing money into the furnace. Just be a rocket company. All of the xAI founders left. Your product's brand name is mud. Just stop doing that and build spaceships.

As a social media site they need to understand content for recommendations and they allow people to ask questions about posts for free. Along with having a large amount of data that can be trained on xAI has good reason to continue developing AI.

Twitter (and others) had an algorithmic feed long before LLMs.

These don't actually seem like "good reasons" to me.

Re: Grok Build is open source

#174

I would recommend using https://pi.dev/ over Grok Build with your xAI subscription at this point

Pi is good in concept, but why couldn’t they choose a compiled language instead of TypeScript?

since pi is built to modify itself, isn't it better to use a language like typescript where LLMs have a LOT of training data?

a harness doesn't do any computations by itself so what benefit is using a compiled language?

Re: Grok Build is open source

#175

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Another tactical move is to just stop. You're allowed to exit the AI business. Nobody's forcing you to keep throwing money into the furnace. Just be a rocket company. All of the xAI founders left. Your product's brand name is mud. Just stop doing that and build spaceships.

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Ah yes, rockets, famously invented in late 2024 after LLMs became popular.

Re: Grok Build is open source

#176

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Another tactical move is to just stop. You're allowed to exit the AI business. Nobody's forcing you to keep throwing money into the furnace. Just be a rocket company. All of the xAI founders left. Your product's brand name is mud. Just stop doing that and build spaceships.

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Re: Grok Build is open source

#177
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It's Apache 2.0. You can have your agents audit it if you want. What does this release have to do with "trusting" XAI?

curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash this is unauditable trust in XAI.

It's auditable, just redirect, don't pipe. Or fix your bash to not allow this.

It has nothing to do with XAI, other than maybe not enforcing good practice (which most devs don't follow anyway).

Re: Grok Build is open source

#178

I would recommend using https://pi.dev/ over Grok Build with your xAI subscription at this point

Pi is good in concept, but why couldn’t they choose a compiled language instead of TypeScript?

For TUIs, Rust/Go vs Typescript doesn't really makes a huge performance difference and you lose the 50x bigger community advantage of Typescript.

Re: Grok Build is open source

#179

This is not the right thing, this is the tactical thing. If you have an LLM with less than 1% of the share to begin with, you suffer from bad rep and you got caught uploading user data, one of the very few remaining tactical moves to try to climb out of it is this.

Another tactical move is to just stop. You're allowed to exit the AI business. Nobody's forcing you to keep throwing money into the furnace. Just be a rocket company. All of the xAI founders left. Your product's brand name is mud. Just stop doing that and build spaceships.

> You're allowed to exit the AI business.

Isn’t it more fun to fight the incumbents, the behemoths, the goliaths?

Re: Grok Build is open source

#180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As a social media site they need to understand content for recommendations and they allow people to ask questions about posts for free. Along with having a large amount of data that can be trained on xAI has good reason to continue developing AI.

Twitter (and others) had an algorithmic feed long before LLMs. These don't actually seem like "good reasons" to me.

Before using large language models, they used language models. Large language models perform better, at the cost of being more expensive to run.
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