The top things I have read this week 🏆

Week 11 / 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 👇

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🌀 The State of Product Development 2026

16 min • by Luca Rossi

This week we published our biggest research ever, in which we surveyed 340 teams on how they do product development, where the bottlenecks live, and where AI is (and is not) helping. Worth a read if you are interested in what teams actually do, without the hype!

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🥇 Agentic Engineering Patterns

15 min • by Simon Willison

This is not a single article, but rather a growing collection of practices and patterns for getting the best results out of coding agents. Simon is an absolute authority on the topic, and I am excited that he has started to gather these systematically.

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🥈 Judgment and Creativity Are All You Need

5 min • by Will Larson

Another great piece by Will Larson, where he argues that coding agents have largely solved the constraints of time and attention. The bottleneck has now shifted to judgment: knowing what to build and how to do it in a way that is scalable and maintainable.

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🥉 The Claude C Compiler: What It Reveals About the Future of Software

12 min • by Chris Lattner

Chris Lattner, the creator of LLVM, reviews the AI-built C compiler from Anthropic. His verdict is that it’s a genuine milestone, calling it “a competent textbook implementation”. Worth reading to understand what Chris thinks AI can and can’t do today.

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4) Block Cut 4,000 Jobs and Blamed AI

25 min • by Conor Bronsdon

Detailed write-up of the Block layoff story, including a lot of context about what possibly led to it, Jack Dorsey’s own track record, and benchmarks from other companies that are (and are not) going through similar paths. It’s a long read, 100% worth it!

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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