Comment by Sajarin
4 hours ago
Just blogged about this here[0] but at least they're not doing the usual canned PR response surrounding this.
Folks are already building on top of it:
thedavidweng/gork-build[1] — rebrand grok→"gork", stripped vendor telemetry, opt-out-only data retention, blocks x.ai auto-update. A "VSCodium-style privacy fork."
DigiGoon/digi-grok-build[2] — "dgrok" multi-provider CLI, builds from source instead of x.ai CDN.
victor-software-house/open-grok[3] — "opened to every provider."
LukaMucko/grok-build[4] — extra_body support for provider-specific request fields.
RapidAI/grok-build-desktop[5] — Tauri desktop GUI client.
mazdak/grok-build[6] — theming (Catppuccin).
thomas9120/grok-build-archival[7] — Windows telemetry-disable script.
saqoah/grok-build[8] — Kotlin MemoryBackend.
Nice, [3] reminded me of OpenGrok † the old Sun project that was basically LXR on steroids.
† https://oracle.github.io/opengrok/
These are all pointless forks, they will die in a year.
Bookmark this and check back.
Honestly. Some LLM enthusiasts throwing an agent at making a fork doesn't mean anyone is invested in this
That doesn’t mean they won’t be, or that the forks won’t be good.
While I'm sure most of them will die, there will certainly be 1 or 2 that the community rallies behind
Why when they can just fork it and improve it on their own with AI?