The top things I have read this week 🏆
Week 13 / 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 👇
🌀 The Telephone Game of Software
13 min • by Luca Rossi
This week I explored the steps that go from a feature simply being intent in a PM’s mind, to becoming actual code. Each of these steps can act as a lossy translation of the previous ones, and we need to prevent that.
🥇 Architecture Decision Record
8 min • by Martin Fowler
Maintaining ADRs is a great practice, which only got more useful with AI. Martin’s piece is a great primer for them, also linking to useful tools.
🥈 The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis
25 min • by Citrini Research
I finally caught up with this viral imaginary report from 2028, that was published last month. Very useful to read to reflect on the second and third order effects of AI. It was a good test for my own beliefs: which predictions do I find reasonable? Which dubious?
🥉 Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity
8 min • by Matheus Lima
Tale as old as time — we most often reward complexity as a display of brilliance, and ignore simplicity. Engineers who over-build get a compelling narrative, while the ones who ship the simplest (and thus the best!) thing get… nothing.
4) Better, Faster, and Even More
10 min • by Rands
I am really enjoying Rands’ blog lately. It has become a blend of classic Rands’ management advice and occasional tales from his own AI experiments. This is one of the latter. I also love how practical he explains these — there are code snippets!
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