About Friendly AI Labs

Friendly AI Labs is an AI productivity company. We make Hive.

What we’re building

Describe a coding task, and Hive starts a virtual machine, puts an AI agent to work in it, and shows you what changed and why. Your laptop stays out of it.

Every task gets its own machine, so agents can install packages and break things without touching yours. Start one task or twenty, close your laptop, and come back to pull requests that each have a plan, a diff, test results and a recording of the app running. When an agent isn’t sure, it asks. You make the calls.

Hive runs Claude Code and Codex today, and you can bring your own agent. Plan with one model, build with another, and have a third review the result. Run it on Hive Cloud, or on a Mac or Linux computer of yours.

Why “friendly”

An agent should be on your side. It works where it can’t hurt anything, asks before it guesses, and leaves the decisions to you. That’s the bar for everything we ship.

Who we are

Friendly AI Labs was started by Mike Nakhimovich, an engineer who has been building software since high school. What he likes isn’t the programming so much as making something new from nothing, and Hive is about letting one person make a lot more of it.

This blog

Here we write about building Hive and working alongside AI agents: what works, what breaks, and where it’s heading.

Try Hive

Hive is in early access, and it’s free while we let a small group in. Join the waitlist, or write to mike@hive.codes.