Rick Hightower
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Rick Hightower
@RickHigh
Java Champion: Poet, Cold Stone Coder. Creator: Boon & QBit. Streaming Microservices advocate. AWS, Kafka, Scala, Devops, Arch. Lifter. Krav Maga enthusiast

BREAKING: House votes 308-117 to make daylight saving time permanent, sending the bill to the Senate.


Grok 4.5 from @SpaceXAI places #2 on the APEX-SWE leaderboard at 51.2% Pass@1 (±6.0), behind Fable 5 (65.5% ±6.2) on our benchmark for real-world software engineering work. It leads Integration (65.0% Pass@1) and places #2 in Observability (37.3% Pass@1), covering multi-step build tasks and diagnosis/debugging respectively. The Integration lead maps directly to the agentic workflows Grok 4.5 was built for: multi-step coding tasks run in collaboration with Cursor. Grok models have improved 30.2 pp in a year on this benchmark: Grok 4 (21.0% Pass@1) to Grok 4.5 (51.2% Pass@1). Congratulations to the xAI and Cursor teams.


After tonight you just have to root for England right?
























