Comment by nikcub
13 hours ago
> 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
13 hours ago
> 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
It's more useful to have access your full code base compared to having access to only your input and the output they generate.
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.
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.
And presumably they got data from it...
and then released a model that didn't really leave a mark with code performance