alt Hacker NewsI do not understand how anyone can seriously use a tool that has "Be funny and irreverent when appropriate" baked into the system prompt.
I don't want to waste money because my calculator is cracking jokes. They don't deserve their paltry 5% marketshare or whatever it is they have currently. I'm not even getting into Musk as a person or the horrid things we've seen Grok spit out on twitter. I just don't trust his companies with my data and I have seen very little evidence that it's ever the best tool for the job. I'm sure those cases exist but I can't imagine it's worth it.
I am on the exact same page as you, but there is definitely a market for LLMs which speak more conversationally and less like Claude! Non-programming use cases abound and most users don't like the rigid, exact tone that engineering demands.