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It's my go to for searches, DIY, personal finance, and more general slice of life AI.

Once it is as good as Kimi K2.6 for coding, I will probably use Grok exclusively. It really is the best conversational AI I've used. It has helped me fix a broken fridge, and a broken electrical oven. Literally saved me at least $4k this year.

Edit: Also saved me $600 because I did my taxes with it. H&R Block is cooked.

Edit 2: Oh shit it is as smart as Kimi K2.6. Time to try it!

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Did you do legal filings with it after doing your taxes? Oh my.

what do you mean?

It was a joke about people relying on AI and it doing absolutely terrible things.

Coding is an interesting area -- it can code, then compile to see if that part worked, then test to see if more worked.

With taxes, it sets things up and the review phase is the IRS fining you.

in this case my tax situation is so retarded simple, I could verify what it suggested step by step and I performed the actions on one of those free tax usa website. the irs accepted my returns and everything went fine. if you're in a simple tax situation, try it!

oh, I’ve had the IRS accept and then later fine more than once.

But if you are in a common situation, any llm should be quite helpful.

How do you save money on taxes?

The taxes you owe is a mathematical solve which is always the same....

in america you need to pay a preparer for your taxes because we hate poor people. The user is saying they don't need to pay a preparer because they used Grok. I didn't do that this year but I'll probably do it next year with a frontier model. US taxes are a perfect use case for AI, tbh.

deductions

child credits

points per paycheck proper setup

and of course, avoiding to pay an accountant to set run all this if you are a normal w2 worker.