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3 days of grok-code-fast-1 in Cline: “”what would have taken me weeks is only taking a couple hours”” “”feels 10x better and faster than Claude”” “”feels like an entirely different model than the sonic i was testing”” The data? >level with Sonnet-4 in diff edits, and improving https://x.com/cline/status/1961488289803939915

Grok Code Fast 1 is versatile across the full stack and is particularly strong at TypeScript, Python, Java, Rust, C++, and Go. Using Grok Code Fast 1, @DannyLimanseta built the following game in a day. https://x.com/xai/status/1961129796349423944

Grok Code Fast from @xai scored 90% on Roo Code evals — top-tier performance at half the cost of its peers. ⚡️ Free to try in Roo Code Cloud until Sept 10. See why speed + savings make @grok a strong new addition: https://x.com/roo_code/status/1962571908224110673

Grok Code just hit #1 on the OpenRouter leaderboard, beating Claude Sonnet https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1961677739762790630

Grok Code lead increased to 60% higher usage than Claude Sonnet https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1962265197462110473

grok-code-fast-1 has good vibes. prob makes the best tradeoff on the speed / intelligence curve right now. gpt-5 is too spiky, sometimes it’s surprisingly good sometimes it overthinks something way too much. you end up spending too much time waiting for some pedantic output.”” / X https://x.com/dzhng/status/1961905091960791194

Humbling to see Grok-Code-Fast-1 smash daily token records. The community response has been so incredible that we’re extending our free promo until September 10th. 🧵 Here’s how to get set up in your favorite code editors:”” / X https://x.com/veggie_eric/status/1961877264599306573

I tried out @cline + @xai grok-code-fast-1 to assist me with my effort to port a large project (tinygrad) from python to c. So far, I’d been using combination of Claude Code + Claude 4.1 Sonnet/Opus and @roo_code + GPT5 medium for this, with success (though with a lot of hand”” / X https://x.com/QuixiAI/status/1962600301309108304

interesting trend from the @xAI team that we haven’t seen from other frontier model labs this is the second round of free access to @grok models they’ve provisioned to Cline users in exchange for rich @cline usage data why is cline data so valuable? it’s a heavyweight workout https://x.com/nickbaumann_/status/1961539461860487664

Some great quotes about Grok Code Fast 1 from our friends at Cline and opencode 🩵 https://x.com/veggie_eric/status/1961474457295622515

The improvement from `sonic` to `grok-code-fast-1` has been notable according to Cline users”” / X https://x.com/cline/status/1962628786366881795

Master Plan Part IV”” / X https://x.com/Tesla/status/1962591324022153607

Tesla’s Master Plan Part IV: Sustainable Abundance for All “Our momentum allowed us to build out a fully integrated ecosystem of sustainable products, from transport to energy generation, battery storage and robotics. Today we are on the cusp of a revolutionary period primed https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1962599579221926315

xAI’s CFO is the latest executive to leave Elon Musk’s AI firm | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/03/xais-cfo-is-the-latest-executive-to-leave-elon-musks-ai-firm/

Marc Benioff interacting with Optimus. The robot pauses for a long time after a command, Elon mentions, because it needed a little bit more room around it. The hands appear to be placeholder dummies. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1963269758423580717

Tesla self-driving cars are being tested in Boring Co. tunnels in Las Vegas, but full autonomy is still ‘a ways off,’ convention center exec says | Fortune https://fortune.com/2025/08/26/tesla-self-driving-cars-testing-boring-co-tunnels-las-vegas/

For 𝜏²-Bench Telecom, OpenAI’s GPT-5 and o3 achieve scores of >80% with a lead over other frontier models, followed by the new Grok Code Fast 1 and Grok 4 from xAI. Models noted for their capabilities in agentic use cases and tool calling performed well, such as the Claude https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1962881324727087253

Tesla asks court to throw out fatal Autopilot crash verdict https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgdjx0vgn3o

xAI sues ex-engineer for trade secret theft https://www.therundown.ai/p/xai-sues-ex-engineer-for-trade-secret-theft

Overview | xAI Docs https://docs.x.ai/docs/overview

SpaceX’s Starship rocket finally completes successful test flight | New Scientist https://www.newscientist.com/article/2493987-spacexs-starship-rocket-finally-completes-successful-test-flight/

it’s really fast”” / X https://x.com/vikhyatk/status/1961959454347501781

The ability to predict the future is the best measure of intelligence”” / X https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1963877113049580023

XAI OPENAI TRADE SECRETS LAWSUIT complaint.pdf https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/gdvzbjjjzvw/XAI%20OPENAI%20TRADE%20SECRETS%20LAWSUIT%20complaint.pdf

xAI sues former engineer, alleging he stole trade secrets after being paid $7M https://sfstandard.com/2025/08/29/xai-elon-musk-openai-stanford-sam-altman-ai-talent-wars/

i never took the dead internet theory that seriously but it seems like there are really a lot of LLM-run twitter accounts now”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1963366714684707120

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