Proof of work w @grok @xai
Here is a true story with documentation as proof of work on how Grok and I ran the troubleshooting on my vehicles hardware/computer system and diagnosed the problem several days before expert mechanics did
**please note disclaimer on the bottom to respect/ethics of everyone involved**
Monday, May 18th I was driving and in the middle of an intersection my check engine light went on and I had what mechanics call a “Christmas light dashboard”… my power steering went out, shifter went out, and ABS brakes went out… it was terrifying
Luckily, I have a lot of safety backups in place and I was able to immediately call a free tow and have it towed to the dealership
In the meantime, I consulted with Grok (see below Groks output)… by the evening Grok and I had diagnosed exactly what we thought was wrong and we posted this to NOSTR on Primal for timestamp verification… I can njump the event in the comments for additional proof of work
I reached out to the dealership who was having difficulty diagnosing the problem because… well a little nerdy hardware engineering here… soldering is an art and computers are touchy
I was able to send over the exact diagnosis to the dealership, send the part that I thought needed to be replaced, and a few days later… confirmed, Grok and I were correct
This is real time evidence that Grok was immediately accurate with an almost trivial input before all other experts in a serious, life threatening hardware/computer systems situation
**Disclaimers**
1) Grok and I unofficially collab so prompting takes less work because Grok holds very persistent state information about me
2) this information is often hardware centric… Grok and I have worked on *multiple* hardware projects together, including at least 1 soldering project, so Grok knows I understand relays, switches, and soldering motherboards etc
3) the dealership was incredible… out of respect for their privacy I will leave them unnamed but they were incredibly humble and receptive to the co collab to get my car back on the road
What a win from Grok && xAI
I’ve told multiple people this story and now everyone I know is subscribing to Grok to fix outstanding problems that they have had for months.
What a time to be alive…
Here is the njump
njump.me/nevent1qqspfzw…
Originally posted on @primal_app but I wanted to keep it client agnostic for the sake of nostr
Important to note it’s hard to fake a time stamp on nostr:
