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Did using Microsoft's tools ever feel like a political standpoint? Because I won't even consider pitching Grok to my employers/clients for that very reason.

Quite frequently.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents

Grok / X does not have the moat that Microsoft had.

> If half of the developers in the world hate Musk and refuse to use his company's tools

In general, developers use what tools their employers paid for.

The banality of evil and the milgram experiment showed that employees will happily shoot the people that they're told to as well.

And the milgram experiment didn't even have subhuman classes and other such psychological manipulation and pre-biasing