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I was hesitant to use Grok but have actually found it to be excellent and it has totally replaced ChatGPT for me now.

The biggest difference is that it isn’t sycophantic and will often tell me I am wrong when I am. This makes way more of a difference than I thought it would as I feel I can trust the results more (perhaps naively)

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FYI, GPT-5 in GitHub Copilot has (almost) completely gotten rid of the “you’re absolutely right” and faux Californian enthusiasm those of us with a British English bias find so condescendingly irritating. ;)

I should try Grok for comparison then.

Haha!

Ok, interesting - will revisit

Hrm, I've never used it, but maybe I should. I've really only used claude and chatgpt, but it's annoying with how they agree with whatever you feed them.

I switched from OpenAI to Gemini a couple of months ago, and was impressed how it sticks to its guns if it thinks I'm wrong.

Interesting, will check it out

I would recommend trialing it for a month instead of ChatGPT.

I still use Claude code for coding

Claude has been super annoying in the last few weeks, I ask it a question and it always immediately starts to write or update code instead of answering.

Same experience here. Codex has been a nice alternative when Claude Code is being dumb

Lol, I've just installed the grok cli and did exactly the same thing..

> I've started to merge scripta and scriptb into scriptc, how would you proceed?

> I've merged the scripts into scriptc

If I have to tell the AI with every prompt not to run ahead it stops being useful..

I don’t mind it because I can enable planning mode and it will (mostly) not modify things.

Claude will sometimes dump very exact file content into a plan.md when I ask it to write its plan down which is annoying.

ChatGPT truly has no moat. I already stopped using it and cancelled my payment. The got left behind so quickly.

As things tend toward commodity (e.g. one item being replaceable with another with not much, or no, difference) the thing that matters most is brand.

So to the contrary, ChatGPT has the ONLY moat so far. 5.8B page visits vs 148m and growing much faster on an absolute basis. https://www.similarweb.com/website/chatgpt.com/vs/claude.ai

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