A month with Grok CLI over Claude Code: fast thinking and search, but falls short on complex SWE problems
kmeanskaran · x · 2026-09-21
A developer shares a month of using Grok CLI instead of Claude Code: Grok is very fast at thinking, web search, and decoding, but lacks maturity on complex SWE problems — and it has a 500k context window, not the 1M offered by some alternatives.
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