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Because I don't believe what you just said about him. Literally not even one detail.

Seriously? His destruction of USAID and the various estimates of resulting deaths is well documented.

https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=titl...

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...

Re: Grok Build is open source

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It's a shame that they exfiled private data. The model is actually good (better than opus 4.8 imo) and the harness itself is butter smooth with the potential of being the best out there.

Now this is contrarian!

I’m an anti-Musk zealot and I now pay for a subscription, it’s pretty good stuff

Re: Grok Build is open source

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What rule about steelmanning? We’re commenting online, not writing peer reviewed research. And yeah, some people lose the benefit of the doubt. Sorry, but actions have consequences. Elon doesn’t just get to kill hundreds of thousands of poor people by eliminating USAID and expect everyone to treat him the same way. He’s made enemies for life, and he deserves it.

Wait, you think not giving additional aid = responsibility for whatever happens in the developing country? Does this blame go for the rest of the year, decade, or century? Does giving aid in the first place automatically trigger this? If I gave $500 to kids cancer research every year for 5 years, and then I don't give this year, do I have blood on my hands every time a kid dies of cancer from now on? And if you didn'…

The issue is that only Congress had the authority to cut funding to a congressionally authorized program. What Elon did was illegal and also heinous.

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While I'm sure most of them will die, there will certainly be 1 or 2 that the community rallies behind

Why when they can just fork it and improve it on their own with AI?

Maintaining a fork costs you mental space, time and energy, even if someone else (i.e. AI) can reliably do all the work. (In my experience they're not quite there yet.)

Re: Grok Build is open source

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It's a shame that they exfiled private data. The model is actually good (better than opus 4.8 imo) and the harness itself is butter smooth with the potential of being the best out there.

That was a mistake and they deleted all the data.

How do you accidentally upload your user's repos to a storage bucket?

Re: Grok Build is open source

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Why bother with this when they already paid $60B for Cursor?

I would imagine Grok Build is going to be "retired", and open-sourcing something before retirement is quite common. Cursor is light years better than Grok Build.

I have found Grok Build to be decent, and the harness to be competitive with similar harnesses. What will Cursor add if I check it out?

Re: Grok Build is open source

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You misunderstand Musk's motivation. This was never about money for him, but about control over a key technology. One of the main reasons he exited OpenAI was the fact that the other co-founders wanted to create a structure where no one, Musk included, would be able to seize full control of the company. That was the thing that prompted him to leave, which tells you a lot about what he really wanted in the first place…

> This was never about money for him, but about control over a key technology. I think he just wanted to have a sci-fi future, and because many other people think similarly he has tapped into that shared desire and has been succeeding. Looking at things from the other side, musk is good at making physical things, where other companies are weak. Grok in a tesla car is actually well integrated and kind of nice. You can…

Musk itself doesn't make things. He only puts the money, and other people build the things. How many times, they need to work around him or fix his crazy ideas ?

People must stop trying to compare it to Tesla or Tony Stark. He is more like the bad guy of Jurassic Park 2.

Re: Grok Build is open source

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

"xAI subscription" what is this referring to? There's a grok subscription but I don't think that gives API access?

Edit: apparently X premium(+?) also gives access to Grok Build, and several third party harnesses are officially supported.

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