/Hive Five #289 · Oct 16, 2026
Pace the Frontier
/The Bee's Knees 🐝
The headline picks from this issue. The full issue has more.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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