Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters

Post by daveguy » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 9:14 PM UTC

Sol- wrote: post #134

I don't use it myself, but I feel like the way Grok is integrated into Twitter is a pretty good thing for discussions, as it is certainly a more objective and rational voice than most human participants. I think it's good that people tag @grok if they don't understand something or want an opinion, even if it looks pretty silly to see "@grok is this true" repeated multiple times in replies. That said, Musk's attempts…

Post by charlierguo » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 9:16 PM UTC

nemothekid wrote: post #161

While I believe Grok was a decent model (in some of our internal use cases it performed the best until Gemini 2.5-pro came out), I can't help lament how the team chose to run. xAI (and Twitter) was the loudest about six-hour workdays, sleeping in the office, and always shipping. ~2 years later it feels like they have nothing to show for it. I'm sure the engineers at Google worked 4 days a week, 2 hours a day, with ha…

Post by robrain » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 9:16 PM UTC

dmarcos wrote: post #139

freehorse wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many projects in his companies seem to be more and more Musk's vanity projects than ideas/products one can take seriously. This is also how tesla ended up with a huge cybertruck stock that nobody wants to buy and thus had to be bought by his other companies. And it is becoming worse and worse, especially ever since he bought twitter and sped up his twitting rates.

FWIW it looks there’s now a demand surge with the introduction of the new cheap cybertruck variant. delivery dates pushed out to the fall of 2026.

Post by MPSimmons » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 9:18 PM UTC

dmarcos wrote: post #139

freehorse wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Many projects in his companies seem to be more and more Musk's vanity projects than ideas/products one can take seriously. This is also how tesla ended up with a huge cybertruck stock that nobody wants to buy and thus had to be bought by his other companies. And it is becoming worse and worse, especially ever since he bought twitter and sped up his twitting rates.

FWIW it looks there’s now a demand surge with the introduction of the new cheap cybertruck variant. delivery dates pushed out to the fall of 2026.

Post by sunaookami » Fri, Mar 13, 2026, 9:19 PM UTC

koakuma-chan wrote: post #47

UncleOxidant wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Giant waste of time while Anthropic/OAI keep surging forward. And Google. They're quietly making a lot of progress in the coding space with antigravity and Gemini 3.1.

Has Antigravity gotten any better?