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0 pointsnikcub2mo ago0 comments

> hand out free top end model coding access for a bit and you'll very rapidly have developer data

They tried this - grok was free on openrouter for a while

0 pointsnikcub2mo ago0 comments

> hand out free top end model coding access for a bit and you'll very rapidly have developer data

They tried this - grok was free on openrouter for a while

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theturtletalks2mo ago· 1 in thread

Marketing push was there too, everyone was saying Grok had jumped Claude and Codex, yet I never got that when using all 3.

Turns out that benchmaxxing doesn't help if it's not very good when people actually try it.

Havoc2mo ago· 1 in thread

And presumably they got data from it...

nikcubOP2mo ago

and then released a model that didn't really leave a mark with code performance

It's more useful to have access your full code base compared to having access to only your input and the output they generate.

But imagine if they handed out free access to Kimi or GLM-5. Actually, I still wouldn't use it, because I avoid APIs that say they hold on to data.

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