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Odd, used 4.6 for many weeks and it handled most things I threw at it. I've been using all models and found it on par with others.
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I have no idea how good it is at coding but it seems to be good at omniscient tasks like solving a puzzle game I made [1]. It's a bit of a silly eval but I wonder if strong recall makes it good for knowledge tasks like legal work.

[1] https://redactle.net/llm-leaderboard

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> for any usecase I tried

For example?

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Coding, agentic flows like logging into my accounts and gathering data, grok bot.

4.6 made more mistakes than SOL or Opus overall. Gave up a lot. And in my opinion, the rate of mistakes is kind of more important than how brilliant it is.

I think 4.7 may still be better, but I was hoping for clearly Sol/Opus level and so far it just isn't there for me.

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I didn't find 4.6 any better than Composer 2.5 - which remains incredible and honestly nothing else compares for me.

Make a galaxy model search the space, create a document, argue and defend decisions, then hand it to 2.5 to implement. 4.6 was a slower less enjoyable version of that.

4.7 is better at "I want the button to cancel the jobs, dont make any mistakes" but honestly that's not what I use it's class for.

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I'm curious: what languages or frameworks is this in?

The Django code that comes out of composer2.5, to me, was insulting. Grok definitely was a step up, especially because the fast option reaaally is fast so even if it came out a bit wrong I could just whip it into perfection.

For frontend work, it's a different story. You can still tell that composer2.5 is taking the long route, but I don't think it's as egregious as with Django.

Also, composer2.5 would routinely run commands that were really dangerous and in need of proper sandboxing. Things like creating an ./uninstall.sh script with a HOME variable on which it does rm -rf $HOME. In general, when I asked composer2.5 to do things "for me", I knew a third of the initial commands would be failures, and sometimes they could be catastrophic failures (it did actually run rm -rf $HOME on what would be an actual home folder). This just hasn't happened with Grok.

I also have a bunch of vibe-coded apps I built for myself with composer2.5 and it is extremely noticeable that they hit a "this needs to be refactored as it's crumbling unto itself" line much earlier than with Grok and proper frontier models.

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In other news, people hired by Elon suck at engineering.
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Yeah, all those engineers he hired at SpaceX are useless. Can't launch a fucking thing.
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Hey hows Starship going? Is it on Mars like he said it would be by now?
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How's any project you've ever done?
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Doing much better if you consider the ratio of outcome success/ money put in.
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I don’t love the guy and currently am receiving lawsuit settlement money from him but…

This is such cope.

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Give me one actual reason why a smart person would take an underpaid overworked position at any of his companies.
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To achieve a goal no other group of people have ever achieved and very few others are even trying.
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Nice Elon slop.

If you think anything Elon doing is groundbreaking, you have no idea how the world works. Recent Space X ipo showed that the launches aren't cheaper, they are just heavily subsidized. Tesla was a piece of crap until they got their model 3, the only reason Tesla succeeded with their S model is because Elon was the edgy hype dude who managed to generate enough hype to carry them through the bullshit with the car. Self driving was supposed to be solved last year, and tiny companies like Comma AI manage to build self driving systems that are in someways better than Teslas.

I bet you think Steve Jobs was a visionary as well lol.

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If not for Tesla there won't be EVs you see today. Tesla was and still is the benchmark for extremely lean car production and software stack.

If not for SpaceX there wouldn't be gigabit internet connectivity in the middle of the ocean.

You're entitled to your own opinion to hate the guy but some self reflection goes a long way.

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>If not for Tesla there won't be EVs you see today.

Most manufacturers already were working on hybrids, which to this day are still suprerior to EVs. Chevy Volt, outside of being Chevy, was still one of the best cars ever made for utilitarian purpose. Nobody wanted to foot the bill to do electric conversions until this was necessary.

Tesla only opened up a market segment for high end electric cars, which I guess is cool, but far from revolutionary. The model 3 was a big success only because again, it was subsidized. Meanwhile BYD actually makes cheap affordable electric cars, and we both know why they are not sold in US.

>If not for SpaceX there wouldn't be gigabit internet connectivity in the middle of the ocean.

Plenty of companies were doing geostationary orbits with satellite connectivity. SES for one.

Any more Elon slop? You realize you are defending a dude that is literally a Nazi, right?

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> More than 4,400 current and former SpaceX employees are likely to become millionaires in the I.P.O., according to an analysis by Hill.com, a San Francisco-based investment platform. Of those, about 400 are expected to earn $100 million or more.[1]

Not to mention the whole launching reusable rockets thing which is pretty cool too.

[1] https://archive.is/20260619220349/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

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I mean maybe the super smart person will work at GOOG/META/Netflix to do some absolutely ground breaking work stuffing ads and slop pixels into as many ocular nerves as possible. However, I could see a smart person taking an "underpaid" (SpaceX SWE: ~$200-400k pre-IPO) to do the following:

Neuralink: to see the impact of increased independence and autonomy of a paraplegic one day after the operation

SpaceX: to quite literally approach the final frontier. Currently launches 80-90% of all orbital mass. Starlink is saving lives constantly.

Tesla: to kickstart the EV revolution and reduce fossil fuel dependence

Boring Company: to radically decrease tunneling costs applicable to all sorts of critical urban problems from transportation to utilities etc

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The smart people do one of 3 things:

* Start their own company

* Go work for a startup where they actually get paid options, and have a say in what the company does.

* Go chill at one of the big companies getting paid good salary while coasting because the work is so easy.

What they certainly don't do is go work at a company for less pay and harder work hours, all so that they can make a literal Nazi richer.

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