Hands-on with Grok-4.7-high: distributed lock test deadlocks, loses to GPT-5.6-sol-medium on real projects
karminski3 · x · 2026-09-23
After a full day with Grok-4.7-high, the verdict: it loses to GPT-5.6-sol-medium on engineering work — "wrote lots of garbage code."
- One-shot tasks are fine, but real projects fall apart;
- Key weaknesses: narrow context, poor code intuition and experience, frequently missing edge cases;
- A quick repro: ask it to write a distributed lock — it deadlocks within minutes and can't fix itself.
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