The top things I have read this week 🏆

Week 6 / 2025

Hey there! Welcome to a new edition of Hybrid Hacker! 🌟

Every week I share the top articles I have found and personally read on the internet. I only share the stuff 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 👇

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🌀 CTO Archetypes

26 min • by Pat Kua

This week I am honored to host an original article by Pat on Refactoring! He proposes a framework to reflect on CTOs’ scope and responsibilities, based on 8 archetypes. It’s great for CTOs to understand where they fit best, for planning your career, and for improving alignment during hiring.

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🥇 Automatic Programming

2 min • by antirez

Stop calling it vibe coding. When it’s engineers doing it, Antirez suggests the better (imo) term automatic programming. Automatic programming produces vastly different results depending on the human guiding the process with their intuition, design, and continuous steering. Vibe coding, instead, means generating software without being part of the process at all

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🥈 Notes on Claude Coding

3 min • by Andrej Karpathy

When Andrej Karpathy speaks, we listen. In just a few weeks, he went from 80% manual coding to 80% agent coding. Great note on how his workflow is changing and his thoughts about it.

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🥉 Shipping at Inference-Speed

13 min • by Peter Steinberger

Peter is the guy behind the sensational OpenClaw. He wrote this blog post about a month ago, and he explained in detail how he writes code with AI. It’s a refreshing take where you won’t find complex orchestrations or multi-agent setups. Mostly common sense stuff by a single human developer.

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4) How to Write a Good Spec for AI Agents

27 min • by Addy Osmani

This is a lengthy post where Addy provides a lot of detailed advice on how to work with agents. With respect to Peter’s piece, there is a lot less chaos and more guardrails — it’s a more structured approach that works better for consolidated teams.

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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