/Hive Five #220 · Apr 21, 2025
The Post-Developer Era
/The Bee's Knees 🐝
The headline picks from this issue. The full issue has more.
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Get better results from LLMs: Lee Boonstra's whitepaper teaches effective prompt engineering techniques, from core methods and best practices to advanced automatic/code prompting, helping you achieve more accurate outputs.
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OpenAI Codex CLI is a coding agent that lives in your terminal, letting you run code and manipulate files with chat-driven development. It's like having ChatGPT, but with the power to execute code and manage your repo safely.
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Stevens: a hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs
There’s a lot of hype these days around patterns for building with AI. Agents, memory, RAG, assistants—so many buzzwords! But the reality is, you don’t need fancy techniques or libraries to build useful personal tools with LLMs.
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Flo, the CEO of Lindy.AI, demonstrates how to create AI agents using the Lindy platform to automate various business tasks and act as AI employees. He highlights the speed and ease with which these agents can be set up, suggesting that half of a business's operations can be automated in half a day.
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Learn about Neovim with Maria Solano (ex-Microsoft), a core maintainer!
She shares tips on LSP snippets, customizing your editor, and how she contributes to the project.
Watch : Learn about Neovim with Maria Solano (ex-Microsoft), a core maintainer!