The top things I have read this week 🏆
Week 28 / 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 how to become an agentic engineering org!
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 👇
🌀 Customer work vs Product work
12 min • by Luca Rossi
This week I wrote about one of the trickiest problems with B2B SaaS: balancing your long-term product roadmap with things that customers ask you to do just for them. I got thoughts about this!
🥇 Viability of Local Models for Coding
9 min • by Birgitta Böckeler
A useful reality check on local coding models. The short version is they are getting much better, but the constraints are still very real: RAM, speed, context, tool calling, and reliability all matter. Great piece by Birgitta who we also interviewed last year.
🥈 In Defense of AI Mandates
4 min • by Charity Majors
I love how Charity frames AI mandates as a funding device. This means. if leaders want people to learn a new way of working, they have to make room for the temporary slowdown, the annoyance, and the mess. Charity was also one of the very first guests of our podcast.
🥉 We should be more tired than the model
2 min • by Vicki Boykis
An interesting take that I largely do not agree with, but gave me something to think about. I love the idea of using LLMs in a way that I can see myself personally growing (as opposed to my skills atrophying here and there), but I don’t see myself going back to writing code manually in order to do that. That’s too big of a tradeoff. But will look for ways to make this more palatable.
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