The top things I have read this week 🏆
Week 29 / 2026
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 👇
🎟️ Join our webinar on automated incident mgmt!
On July 22nd I will host an exclusive webinar together with the team at Augment Code!
In this session, the Augment Code team shares how they transformed their own engineering org by redesigning one workflow at a time, and demos two of them live on a real codebase: agentic code review and automated incident management, where agents now resolve the majority of incidents end-to-end.
You’ll leave with a playbook for finding your org’s current bottleneck and a workflow you can replicate with your team this week 👇
🌀 What LLM should you use for AI coding?
12 min • by Luca Rossi
This week I wrote about how to choose AI models for coding, without worshiping benchmarks. Accuracy, speed, and cost all matter, but they interact in weird ways, and your own codebase discipline may matter more than the leaderboard that everyone is looking at.
🥇 The Tower Keeps Rising
3 min • by Armin Ronacher
I really like the Babel analogy applied to how we cooperate as humans and, ultimately, software. For the first time, “construction” can keep going even after the humans have lost the shared language needed to reason about the system. Food for thought.
🥈 Generated and Suppressed Demand
3 min • by Will Larson
A useful mental model for why fixing a struggling team can feel like nothing has improved. Sometimes the team gets better, and the reward for it is... more work! All the previously hidden demand finally shows up. Great management advice, as always from Will.
🥉 Control the Ideas, Not the Code
6 min • by Salvatore “Antirez” Sanfilippo
Antirez makes a clear point that many engineers are still resisting: if AI writes more code, reviewing every line is probably the wrong use of your time. You have more leverage when you focus on ideas and design.
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