Grokking Grok — Agile Planning

Can Grok AI by X help create user stories and estimates?

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This is a follow-up to a recent article about using ChatGPT to help with Agile Planning. I thought it would be interesting to see how well Grok does with the exact same tasks.

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As I said in the first article, I am not a huge fan of most of the Agile ceremonies, the things I view as “chores” for Agile planning.

Rather than rehash everything I wrote (though there will be some repetitiveness), I’m simply going to jump right in.

My experiment is to challenge Grok with the same prompts and see how well it does. It won’t be a head-to-head matchup, though. While I think that would be interesting, I also think it might be tedious. I’ll let the two experiments stand on their own.

A Few Words About Grok vs ChatGPT

While ChatGPT has a free tier, Grok does not. To access it, you must be an X Premium Plus subscriber, which costs about $167/year USD. Thus, it’s cheaper than ChatGPT Plus…