Originally published at devtoolpicks.com Yesterday, xAI launched Grok Build, a terminal-native AI coding agent going directly after Claude Code and Codex CLI. Elon Musk personally pushed it on X. The features are genuinely interesting. The pricing is not. Here is the honest breakdown for indie hackers deciding whether to pay attention. What Grok Build Actually Is Grok Build is an agentic CLI. It does not just generate code, it takes actions. Install it in a repository and it can read your entire codebase, propose a plan, edit files across multiple directories, run shell commands, install dependencies, spin up subagents, and verify its own work. Think Claude Code but built on Grok 4.3 instead of Claude. The install is a single command: curl -fsSL https://x.ai/cli/install.sh | bash Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Then sign in with your SuperGrok Heavy account and you are in. No SDK setup. No API key configuration across multiple files. You run it, you authenticate, it starts.…