Perspectives from the frontier
On AI-native engineering, agentic systems, and what it actually takes to build production AI—from the engineers who do it.
Why agentic systems demand first-principles evaluation
Beyond single-model benchmarks: evaluating multi-step reasoning, tool use, and failure modes in production agentic architectures.
March 2026
What "AI-native" actually means
It’s not about calling APIs. It’s about designing systems that treat intelligence as a first-class architectural primitive.
February 2026
Scaling document retrieval for legal AI: 90% latency reduction
How a Hive engineer rebuilt search architecture across 2.5M+ documents for a legal-tech platform preparing for RAG.
January 2026
Why we vet engineers with architectural conversations, not coding tests
The Hive vetting process is a live technical dialogue with a domain expert. Here’s why that matters more than LeetCode.
December 2025