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That’s how I see it too. Claude is more “fun” to use, like a coworker I have to talk to now and then to steer it, while gpt-5.6 is a task machine: I give it a task and it is very consistent, reliable and predictable in its execution. I don’t have to interrupt it, it gets the task done exactly how I wanted it, but it’s “boring” and feels more sterile

Do you have some examples of this? I can’t fully imagine how sentences like that actually look like (not native English here)

Grok 4.5 was the first time I considered giving me $100/mo to xai (currently on just SuperGrok). It’s just a very pleasant model to work with: fast, to the point, intelligent. It’s also much better in UI compared to gpt. Not as good as Claude but close!

I didn’t expect we get 4.6 so soon and the increased limits to try it out are neat!

It can simply say “Okay let me try to connect to Notion and add this, just a sec”

Perplexity can use “some” tools (mostly built-in) but custom connectors were from my experience not available in voice.

I usually do a very simple test and tell it to verbatim tell me all tools that are connected

As a Grok maxi user that uses Grok for everything that’s not coding, I’m very happy to see them catching up. Surprised it’s not Grok 5 which Musk teased a while ago.

What I’m missing from this announcement is the capability to use connectors and tools. I don’t really get it - NONE of the frontier assistants can use tools / connectors while in voice mode - Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok. It seems so obvious: I want to be able to research stuff, pull up documents, jot down notes and do productive work while I’m talking to it, and not end voice mode whenever I need to connect to an app or service.

It’s weird. The old Claude voice mode WAS able to use tools but when they revamped it, it lost that capability and is now pinned to Haiku :(

So, yay for finally a voice mode that’s powered by a frontier model and hopefully as good as Grok voice, but sad to still not see tool use while in voice mode.

(I haven’t tried it yet, only read the announcement)

You can’t use a Claude subscription in Zed. Codex and Copilot are supported

/edit: occurred to me that OP meant Claude via ACP, not directly

Also spent the past day using Fable for everything I usually use Opus or gpt-5.5 for. My experience is that it’s a better and more reliable Opus that’s far better in frontend tasks than backend/ios. More similar to gpt-5.5 for long running tasks and reliability.

It still left small bugs and weird behaviors that it cleaned up when I told it about them, but it felt very Opus-ey.

I think for implementing a detailed design doc, I’d put it on par with gpt-5.5 high but farrrr more expensive. I’m eating through my x5 Max plan in no time. I’d use it for reviewing implementations and designs docs as another pass, but it’s too expensive for me for reading a lot of (uncached) code by itself in an agentic loop, especially with medium to high reasoning.

As a daily driver too expensive, that crown still goes to gpt-5.5.

I barely used it in high/xhigh/max reasoning though.

> curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grzegorz-raczek-unit8/clau... | bash

Can we stop with this way of installing things? This is already on brew and it’s a menu bar app. Just let me download it instead of executing some arbitrary bash script

When did this trend start?

He’s talking about “gpt-5.5-pro”. This model is not part of the subscription plans in codex. It’s a different model than gpt-5.5-xhigh

You can use Pro on the web if you’re on the Pro plan but not in Codex

As much as I like Gemini CLI and don’t like them shutting it down, I think it’s good some of the offerings are getting unified. There was too much fragmentation in the google offering and this is making it a tiny bit better.

Grok voice model is also a thinking model. I agree that it’s far better than the other voice models

Just give me a option to have a slower response but better model…

This is what makes their voice mode unusable to me. I can’t stand the way 4o replies and it’s such a big jump in quality from text mode

I'm talking about the consumer Grok app and grok.com website. There currently are not connected apps (or MCP) at all, so while Grok can use tools, there is no way to add tools to it

I also think Grok would benefit from allowing usage of "SuperGrok Heavy" (their $300 plan) in coding harnesses with included usage. Currently they give you some API credits on the Heavy plan so you can use some Grok for coding, but $300 USD value is just not there.

Not saying they should create their own grok-code harness, just allowing usage in existing ones would already be beneficial. But that's probably what the Cursor acquisition is going to do eventually

Grok is my favorite model for chatting, and my favorite voice mode. It seems to be the only voice mode that isn't routing to a extremely cheap model (like Haiku), and has been the highest quality out of all the frontier ones. When you subscribe to SuperGrok you can also create a "council" of agents, each with their own system prompt and when you ask something, they will all get asked in parallel to come to a conclusion. Good stuff!

Just wish they would finally put some work into their apps, it's the only thing keeping me from actually subscribing to SuperGrok:

- No MCP / connected apps support. It's been teased but here we are, still not available. I can't connect Grok to anything, so I can't use it for serious work

- Projects are still not available in the app so as soon as you move something into a project, it's gone from all the native apps

- No way to add artifacts (like generated markdown docs) directly to a project, we have to export to PDF/markdown and re-import. And there isn't even a way to export artifacts. This makes serious project work hard because we can't dynamically evolve projects with new information

- No memory, no ability to look up other chats, each chat is completely new

- No voice mode in projects at all

If someone from xAI is reading this, please consider adding some of these.

I'm also a Claude Code user from day 1 here, back from when it wasn't included in the Pro/Max subscriptions yet, and I was absolutely not aware of this either. Your explanation makes sense, but I naively was also under the impression that re-using older existing conversations that I had open would just continue the conversation as is and not be a treated as a full cache miss.

My biggest learning here is the 1 hour cache window. I often have multiple Claudes open and it happens frequently that they're idle for 1+ hours.

This cache information should probably get displayed somewhere within Claude Code

How does it suck? I use it almost daily and love their Notion MCP

macOS and iOS can do that to with the baked in dictation. Globe key + D on Mac

Now waiting for someone to point Codex at it and rebuild a new Claude Code in Golang to see if it would perform better

It took me a while to understand what this is, but if I understand it right it's a OpenClaw you can run on your Mac Mini, to then use through the Perplexity Computer interface (which is their hosted OpenClaw version that you costs credits)

So a more polished OpenClaw that integrates with Perplexity?

In general interesting, if it's not just limited to Mac Minis. Would love to put this on my VPS that's currently running OpenClaw

By default, assume no. The lack of any official integration guide should be a clear sign. Even saying that you reverse-engineer Codex for apps to pretend to be Codex makes it clear that this is not an officially endorsed thing to do

That’s very clearly a no, I don’t understand why so many people think this is unclear.

You can’t use Claude OAuth tokens for anything. Any solution that exists worked because it pretended/spoofed to be Claude Code. Same for Gemini (Gemini CLI, Antigravity)

Codex is the only one that got official blessing to be used in OpenClaw and OpenCode, and even that was against the ToS before they changed their stance on it.

I don’t feel they’re similar at all and I don’t get why people compare them.

MCP is giving the agents a bunch of functions/tools it can use to interact with some other piece of infrastructure or technology through abstraction. More like a toolbox full of screwdrivers and hammers for different purposes, or a high-level API interface that a program can use.

Skills are more similar to a stack of manuals/books in a library that teach an agent how to do something, without polluting the main context. For example a guide how to use `git` on the CLI: The agent can read the manual when it needs to use `git`, but it doesn’t need to have the knowledge how to use `git` in it’s brain when it’s not relevant.

Get on medicine. It’s the thing that actually changed my life.

That, and learn what adhd actually does, stuff like issues prioritizing tasks, sudden impulsive thoughts, “the adhd wall”, RSD, weak inner voice, etc. It’s much easier to handle if you understand it and can differentiate between something like an impulse and regular thoughts.

I recommend watching videos from Dr Berkeley on YouTube on how to manage adhd. There are lots of tricks like making things physical (time, tasks), or using with external consequences to combat weak inner voice

Yes that’s how I see it too. It’s a productivity multiplier, but depends on what you put in.

Sure Opus can work fully on its own by just telling it “add a button that does X”, but do that 20 times and the good turns into mush. Steer the model with detailed tech specs on the other hand, and the output becomes magical

See https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/pull/1783

I wouldn’t be surprised if Anthropic filed a similar request against OpenCode, and follows it up with a takedown eventually

Yea exactly, I’m surprised people are calling this “drama”. It was from the beginning against the ToS, all the stuff supporting it just reverse engineered what Claude Code is doing and spoof being a client.

I tried something similar few months back and Claude already has restrictions against this in place. You had to very specifically pretend to be real Claude Code (through copying system prompts etc) to get around it, not just a header.

I use Perplexity all the time for search. It's very good at exactly that - internet search. So when using it for search related things it really shines

Yeah sure ChatGPT can spam a bunch of search queries through their search tool but it doesn't really come close to having Perplexity's search graph and index. Their sonar model is also specifically built for search