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David Shapiro (L/0)
David Shapiro (L/0)
@DaveShapi · Feb 18, 2026
Grok still has some serious epistemic gaps. But, once it became aware of them, it had some good feedback for the xAI team: ----------- **Feedback to the xAI team:** In this interaction I failed the user’s test on the first swing, then kept failing by layers even after clear
David Shapiro (L/0)David Shapiro (L/0)@DaveShapi· Feb 18, 2026
Grok 4.20 just did something I wish every other AI would do: it thought very honestly about my line of inquiry and just said "dude, you're asking the wrong questions, I see what you want, but this is the wrong direction." It did not do the pedantic huffy thing that Claude does
Elon Musk
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Sent to the Grok team
08:40 AM · February 18, 2026 · 81.3K views
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