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imrontoday at 9:24 PM3 repliesview on HN

> My favorite part of the new Groks has been how they speak in plain english. I simply cannot stand Claudish.

Grok has its own feel too. It's not as bad as Claude, but one of the things that bugs me is that it is far too terse.

It regularly seems to come up with terms and descriptions for things in its chain of reasoning and then uses these terms in its output assuming you understand what it's talking about.

I find I often have to ask it to re-explain what it means.


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Zambytetoday at 10:22 PM

I wonder how much of this is due to reliance on Twitter data. Or even just RLHF from humans that have a preference for Twitter style information.

caminantetoday at 10:26 PM

> it is far too terse

Anecdotally, I have noticed the same in the past week. It might just be anecdotal or driven by a long context window.

iamflimflam1today at 9:52 PM

It’s frustrating that we can’t see the “thinking” - it’s like we only have access to half the conversation.