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• How the Hive ships itself: 182 releases in 14 days, and what breaks 2026-11-05
  The Hive (hivelab.ca), overnight agents on your own machine, releases itself through a train of checks. In two weeks that made 182 releases. Here is what the train caught, and what it still holds up.
• What a night of unattended work really looks like, including what failed 2026-11-05
  Real nights from the Hive (hivelab.ca), overnight agents on your own machine: one that went well, one where every login hit its weekly limit, and what we changed.
• Agents designing a real circuit board: what worked, what a human still did 2026-11-05
  A hi-fi streaming amplifier in three boards, designed and checked by agents from the Hive (hivelab.ca), overnight agents on your own machine. What the checks caught, and what is still a person's job.
• What it costs to run: real usage numbers from the Hive 2026-11-05
  Seven days of model use by the Hive (hivelab.ca), overnight agents on your own machine, priced at API list prices, what the weekly limit meant in practice, and what we changed to spend less.
• Why the core of the Hive is a text file and a few prompts 2026-11-05
  The Hive (hivelab.ca), overnight agents on your own machine, keeps its core small enough to read in an afternoon. What is in it, and why we think that is the right size.