Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷@farzyness
I think AI has just hit a gigantic threshold, and Grok 4.5 is the PERFECT example as to why that is.
One of the hardest parts of working with AI is iterating on a project or task that you're working on.
As the models have gotten smarter (and more expensive), it's taking longer and longer to get an answer or action back.
This creates a ton of stall time per query or action, which is actually quite bad for creativity and staying in a state of flow.
You have SO many extended starts and stops. Which inevitably leads to your brain going somewhere else. And then when the AI comes back, you have to redirect your brain to that original task, spool your brain back up to what you were working on at that moment, and then adjust as needed.
There's a ton of mental friction involved.
This ESPECIALLY sucks when the AI takes a REALLY long time to get something back for you, but it's not quite what you were looking for or asked for. And what sucks EVEN MORE is that these "mistakes" are getting MORE expensive!!!
So wait time is going up. AND it costs more per run.
HOWEVER - even after using Grok 4.5 for about an hour - what's become obvious is that it's SO MUCH MORE ENJOYABLE AND BETTER to use a model that is FAST... and capable ENOUGH.
Capable ENOUGH is the real unlock here.
Imagine having Fable 5 performance but at the speed of Gemini 3.5 flash. Or Haiku. That's where we're inevitably going.
I think Grok 4.5 (and models like it) have really solved for one of the biggest unlocks in AI - a model that will get you a GOOD ENOUGH answer VERY FAST, at which point iteration can happen VERY QUICKLY.
This - counter intuitively - keeps the user in a state of flow and creativity for MUCH longer because you are constantly ENGAGED with your project... instead of letting the AI loose for a long time.
And as long as humans are involved, I think 'not quite right' will be a FOREVER problem with AI - because AIs, by default, CANNOT have human taste.
Because they are NOT human.
But they can be UNBELIEVABLE tools. And unbelievable tools are the ones that are VERY GOOD and VERY FAST.
I think that's the true unlock with Grok 4.5 and models like it.
Difficult to describe until you experience it.
I think this is a VERY big deal for @SpaceXAI and @elonmusk.
