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/Hive Five #289 · Oct 16, 2026

Pace the Frontier

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  1. Hear DHH on the Age of Agents

    DHH opens Rails World 2026 in Austin with a keynote on AI agents. The talk explains why 37signals has gone all in.

    Watch : Hear DHH on the Age of Agents
  2. Avoid the Senior Engineer Death Spiral

    Sunil Pai writes on proving yourself, burning out, and being a good teammate. Includes advice for staying useful without wearing yourself down.

    Read : Avoid the Senior Engineer Death Spiral
  3. Ship Thousands of PRs a Month

    Matt Pocock talks with Lauren Tan (poteto), creator of pstack, about shipping extraordinary amounts of high-quality code at SpaceX.

    Watch : Ship Thousands of PRs a Month
  4. We Must Pace the Frontier

    Dario Amodei argues AI labs should slow capability gains so safety work can keep up. The essay cites faster progress and the OpenAI-Hugging Face agent swarm incident.

    Read : We Must Pace the Frontier
  5. Meet cf, the Agentic CLI for Cloudflare

    Cloudflare's new command-line tool mirrors the entire API and supports TypeScript configuration. It also open-sourced Forge, its internal SDK generator.

    Read : Meet cf, the Agentic CLI for Cloudflare

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