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 👇
🌀 Do You Need Staging in 2026? 🚚
8 min • by Luca Rossi
This week I revisited my most controverstradial article, about staging environments, to see what still holds four years later, now that AI makes teams ship way more code!
🥇 The Kids Are Alright
6 min • by Francisco Trindade
Francisco takes on the question of whether we should still hire junior engineers, and his answer is a strong yes. If the job of a senior becomes leading a project by orchestrating agents, the job of a junior will be to lead simpler projects in the same way. And if juniors have nothing meaningful to do on your team, that probably says more about your process than about them. I loved this one.
🥈 Software Factories Are a Local Maximum
3 min • by Aviv Ben-Yosef
Aviv makes a great point: agents can make us lose the healthy friction that made us think about why we were building something. I have written a lot about software factories myself, and I 100% agree with him.
🥉 How to Write an Effective Software Design Doc
15 min • by Michael Lynch
Michael wrote design docs at Google and Microsoft, and this is his full playbook on when a doc is worth it, what belongs in it, and what doesn’t. I feel this is even more relevant today, since a good design doc is pretty much the context you want to give your agents (or have them help you write anyway).
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