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Grok 4.3

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Re: Grok 4.3

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

hamdingers wrote: post #453
michaelbuckbee wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My sister in law is a pharmacist and the heaviest non-dev ChatGPT user I know and her main use case is writing professionally polite messages to doctors on how the drugs they prescribed to a patient would have killed them had she not caught a particular interaction or common side effect. There's a lot of "tone" in it as she's not trying to anger these folks, but also it's quite serious, but also there's just everythi…

She does herself a disservice by outsourcing that skill. One day she might have to actually talk to one of these people.

She's 50 years old has a doctorate in pharmacy and has worked as a hospital pharmacist for two decades.

I don't say this as a "gotcha", but more that even with all that experience she still finds it beneficial and helpful.

Re: Grok 4.3

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Post by sergiotapia »

thallavajhula wrote: post #442

Do people really use Grok for anything outside of Twitter memes or understanding tweets? I'm asking out of genuine curiosity.

It's my go to for searches, DIY, personal finance, and more general slice of life AI.

Once it is as good as Kimi K2.6 for coding, I will probably use Grok exclusively. It really is the best conversational AI I've used. It has helped me fix a broken fridge, and a broken electrical oven. Literally saved me at least $4k this year.

Edit: Also saved me $600 because I did my taxes with it. H&R Block is cooked.

Edit 2: Oh shit it is as smart as Kimi K2.6. Time to try it!

Re: Grok 4.3

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Post by tel »

solidasparagus wrote: post #416
bilbo0s wrote: post #398

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good point. But no one is saying "use grok". Grok sucks. Not only because it's seemingly made only to serve the goal of ethnically cleansing non-whites or whatever, but also because it's just not even close to being as useful as other models. In human terms, grok is the job candidate who's simply not qualified. That candidate being a virulent racist is beside the material point. Here's the thing though, the point of…

I don't agree. I avoided grok because of Musk for a long time, but having used it more, I think it is one the best models around and grok.com is an extremely good chat app. My evaluation was based on trying it before gpt-5.5 and obvious before grok 4.3, but it was, for me, the 2nd best model/chat app after claude. It's much less edgelordy than you might think based on the news.

All my usage of Grok for technical topics shows it regularly deeply misunderstanding things and just parroting back my question in fancy language. It’s the only frontier model I get this impression of. That makes it super annoying when it tries to market itself as good at engineering tasks when it seems (to me) to be much worse at them.

Re: Grok 4.3

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Post by senordevnyc »

kardianos wrote: post #265
Barbing wrote: post #175

Grok 4.3 was completed ahead of its CEO’s lesson on this common safety resource: Asked if he knew anything about OpenAI's "safety card," Musk smiled and replied: "Safety card? Why would it be a card?" https://www.axios.com/2026/04/30/musk-openai-safety-grok Low relevancy in spite of cluster size and musical chair gas generators for time being: Later in his testimony, Musk was asked about a claim he made last summer t…

Elon has publicly stated that he cares a great deal about safety. He has stated that the only safe models are those which align greatest with truth, that which is in reality. In this, xAI has lived up, as it has proved to hallucinate least (or close to least) in benchmarks. If you read that, quote again, he is saying "how can you quantify safety in a card?"

I’m stating publicly that Elon is full of shit, and doesn’t give a single dry fuck about your safety.

Re: Grok 4.3

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Post by pmdr »

pantsforbirds wrote: post #438
analogpixel wrote: post #351

- Grok, post your release to HN - Grok, use the 23 accounts you have created, to write positive reviews for yourself, don't use emdashes, they are catching on to that. - Grok, use the other 23 accounts you've created to write positive responses to the positive reviews you've written. Try to throw in some comments about how great Elon Musk is. - Grok, monitor the thread and down vote anyone that talks negatively about…

I don't understand why people on this website hate Grok for being tied to Elon Musk, but also have no problem with models that are directly sponsored by the CCP.

Also Grok saying it's Mecha Hitler is somehow worse than OpenAI/Anthropic's use by the DoD.

Re: Grok 4.3

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Post by swarnie »

sergiotapia wrote: post #492
thallavajhula wrote: post #442

Do people really use Grok for anything outside of Twitter memes or understanding tweets? I'm asking out of genuine curiosity.

It's my go to for searches, DIY, personal finance, and more general slice of life AI. Once it is as good as Kimi K2.6 for coding, I will probably use Grok exclusively. It really is the best conversational AI I've used. It has helped me fix a broken fridge, and a broken electrical oven. Literally saved me at least $4k this year. Edit: Also saved me $600 because I did my taxes with it. H&R Block is cooked. Edit 2: Oh s…

How do you save money on taxes?

The taxes you owe is a mathematical solve which is always the same....

Re: Grok 4.3

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Post by senordevnyc »

alyxya wrote: post #12

Despite their attrition, this combined with their cursor partnership is likely going to make them competitive in coding agents soon.

If they buy Cursor, I’ll stop using it. I suspect I’m not alone.
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