The top things I have read this week 🏆
Week 16 / 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 👇
🌀 Introducing the AI Club
This week I published an announcement that we are starting a monthly AI Club for members of the Refactoring community, to share personal wins, failures, and learnings about AI!
🥇 Who Will Be the Senior Engineers of 2035?
11 min • by James Stanier
Great article by James, who put together a lot of resources and ideas (also from different industries), and connected the dots to understand what may happen to the software engineering job market. Recommended read.
🥈 Open Source Isn’t Dead
3 min • by Alex Schapiro
Cal.com recently announced it’s going closed source, citing AI vulnerability scanning as the #1 reason. This piece pushes back, and I actually agree with it: closing source code doesn’t remove the attack surface — AI can still attack you black-box, at runtime. The better response is continuous AI defense (fire with fire!).
🥉 Agents as Scaffolding for Recurring Tasks
4 min • by Will Larson
Great practical pattern for introducing agents into your workflows: start by prototyping with agent-driven automation, then refactor some agentic parts away into deterministic code, keeping the agent only where it truly shines: navigating ambiguity.
4) Product Management on the AI Exponential
8 min • by Cat Wu
Articles from the Claude Code team about how they work tend to be a bit extreme and should be taken with a grain of salt, but I enjoyed the reflections here about how the PM role is changing. Less roadmaps, more short sprints, more prototypes, and keep things simple.
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