Lian Lim | Dashboard & AI Automation Expert

🚨BREAKING: xAI released Grok Build and developers are losing their minds the early beta went live on may 14, 2026 available for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers at $300/month here's what makes it special: it runs up to 8 AI agents in parallel on a single task it has a 2 million token context window and is the largest among western closed models that means it holds your entire codebase in memory while working it has plan mode where you review the plan before any code runs it supports vim mode and mouse in the terminal UI it picks up your existing AGENTS.md, plugins, hooks, skills, and MCP servers so if you use claude code, your setup transfers over xAI is trying to catch up to claude code and codex this is how they're doing it if you run on SuperGrok Heavy subscription you can check it out here x.ai/cli and decide for yourself

🚨BREAKING: xAI released Grok Build and developers are losing their minds the early beta went live on may 14, 2026 available for SuperGrok Heavy subscribers at $300/month here's what makes it special: it runs up to 8 AI agents in parallel on a single task it has a 2 million token context window and is the largest among western closed models that means it holds your entire codebase in memory while working it has plan mode where you review the plan before any code runs it supports vim mode and mouse in the terminal UI it picks up your existing AGENTS.md, plugins, hooks, skills, and MCP servers so if you use claude code, your setup transfers over xAI is trying to catch up to claude code and codex this is how they're doing it if you run on SuperGrok Heavy subscription you can check it out here x.ai/cli and decide for yourself

open your terminal type claude start building these 18 features are the difference between using Claude Code and actually shipping with it

quick recap: 1/ CLAUDE.md → project memory 2/ Permissions → safety controls 3/ Plan Mode → think before doing 4/ Checkpoints → undo anything 5/ Skills → reusable instructions 6/ Hooks → automatic scripts 7/ MCP → connect external tools 8/ Plugins → shareable configs 9/ Context → manage your window 10/ Sub Agents → parallel workers 11/ Custom Commands → your own shortcuts 12/ @Mentions → cleaner context loading 13/ Model Switching → right model per task 14/ Effort Levels → control reasoning depth 15/ Background Sessions → delegate and move on 16/ Git Integration → version control in plain English 17/ Auto Test Loop → fix until it passes 18/ Agent View → orchestrate everything

At Anthropic the majority of code is now written by Claude Code here are 18 features every developer needs to know 🧵