The top things I have read this week 🏆
Week 20 / 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.
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I mainly read things from my public daily digest, which curates an ever growing list of sources. Here is this week’s best stuff 👇
🌀 How to Orchestrate AI Workflows
8 min • Luca Rossi
In the face of my own the ever growing workflows for Refactoring and Tolaria, this week I explored how to scale them from being mostly AI-driven, to a healthy mix of deterministic & AI steps, where actual code is used for plumbing, and AI is used for judgment.
🥇 Software Engineering May No Longer Be a Lifetime Career
6 min • by Sean Goedecke
Using AI to code means you don’t learn as much about coding itself, but refusing to use it puts you at a disadvantage today. So, is software engineering becoming more like professional sports? That is, a career with a finite window rather than a lifetime of compounding skill accumulation.
🥈 GitLab Act 2
19 min • by Bill Staples
GitLab’s CEO lays out their vision and plan for a major restructuring of the company around agentic AI and the future of software delivery. Interesting both as a product vision and as a case study in leading a public company through a platform shift.
🥉 Thin Harness, Fat Skills
3 min • by Garry Tan
By now we know that AI agents become far more productive by using purpose-built skills. It’s still unclear how all of this scales, but Garry’s mental model about growing skills instead of the general harness is solid, and I agree with him.
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