The top things I have read this week 🏆
Week 7 / 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 👇
🌀 My Experience with OpenClaw
14 min • by Luca Rossi
This week I published a full write-up of how I use OpenClaw at Refactoring and in my personal life. It’s been a transformational tool for me, and I believe a lot of critics are missing the point. In the article I cover it all: workflows, security, and some hot takes about the future.
🥇 The AI Vampire
13 min • by Steve Yegge
AI makes you wildly more productive, but where does all that extra value go? If the company captures it all, you just burn out faster. A lot of great thinking by Steve Yegge here. A sneaky risk of AI isn’t that it replaces you, it’s that it drains you while you keep shipping more.
🥈 How I Use Claude Code to Ship Like a Team of Five
9 min • by Kieran Klaassen
This is one of the best and most practical explainers about how to use Claude Code that I have encountered. Kieran goes through his exact workflows, and even includes video explainers!
🥉 Context Engineering for Coding Agents
8 min • by Birgitta Böckeler (I interviewed Birgitta here)
A thorough overview of how to configure what your coding agent sees: reusable prompts, context interfaces, MCP servers, slash commands. Build context gradually rather than dumping everything upfront, and iterate on what works. Birgitta is a top authority on this, and it shows.
4) Three Bad Managers
10 min • by Rands
Three archetypes of terrible managers (but good leaders!): The Artist who doesn’t value humans, The Dictator who dominates every conversation, and The Knife who is… well, just a mess. You’ve probably worked for at least one of these, the lessons are in what not to do.
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