The top things I found this week 🏆
Week 51 / 2025
Hey there! Welcome to a new edition of Hybrid Hacker, in this new digest format!
Every week I share the top articles I have found. I only share stuff I have read (or tried if it’s a tool) and I believe it’s worth your time. 100% signal, 0% slop.
I mainly read things from my public daily digest, which curates an ever growing list of sources. Here is this week’s best stuff 👇
👓 Readings
🥇 Facilitating AI Adoption at Imprint
13 min • by Will Larson
This is a side-quest (to say the least) for every engineering leader right now. Will shares his working notes on how he is driving AI adoption at Imprint, with a lot of practical ideas and lessons learned.
🥈 Using LLMs at Oxide
8 min • by Oxide
This is the best manifesto about team LLM adoption I have seen. It covers values, patterns, and anti-patterns, covering everything from first principles. Chances are you can take it and almost copy-paste it for your team. It’s also the perfect complement to Will’s article above.
🥉 Useful Engineering Management Artifacts
5 min • by Bjorn Roche
A practical toolkit that also works as a checklist for everything you may need as an engineering manager. Career development plans, title ladders, team charters, roadmaps, and more — all the key docs that help you scale management without losing your mind.
4) Would You Pay to Have Your Resume Read?
4 min • by Pawel Brodzinski
Great piece about how AI has broken tech hiring. It’s become a game of prompting one AI agent to pass through the filters of another AI agent. So, what if candidates paid a small fee to guarantee a human actually reads their resume?
5) Deliberately Shaping Engineering Orgs
3 min • by Aviv Ben-Yosef
Great list of four failure modes that happen when you are not intentionally shaping your engineering org. A reminder that you need to carve out time to deliberately design your team’s future state.
🔧 Tools
Skippr Finesse
A cool Chrome extension that gives product feedback about the website you are on! Simple, well-executed idea.
Aura Ink
A color e-paper frame that looks just amazing. I am a sucker for digital stuff that blends into your home, and this is the epitome of that. Too bad it costs an arm and a leg 😂 ($450)
Echo
Promising tool (still in early access) that turns your inbox into a doc with the main actionable items. Maybe it’s because I tend to write docs this way myself (simple headings + bullet points) but I think there is a lot of potential in products that take something messy (e.g email) and use AI to turn it into a simple doc. It got me thinking about what other domains could get this treatment.
And that’s it for today! If you find this list useful, please share it with your friends!
You can also read the very same things I read every day via this free daily digest 📬
See you next week!
Sincerely 👋
Luca