Steering
Neutral router
Grok default, choice kept
Mandatory Grok
Owning the editor harness: steering model demand and harvesting coding data
Developers
code supply + consent
cursor — coding harness
default: grok
routing neutral
choice removed
Claude
Anthropic
Codex
OpenAI
Grok
xAI
steered
Grok training pipeline
real coding interactions
Rival harnesses
Claude Code / Codex
Steering accepted
loop thickens for grok
Consent broken
loop collapses — users exit
enterprise code
~150M lines/day
improved grok feeds defaults
durable asset: distribution + data + compute
users defect to rival harnesses