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 👇
🌀 Find a broader version of yourself
11 min • by Luca Rossi
This week I wrote the essay version of my code.talks keynote, about how AI is challenging our identity as engineers, and what we can do about it.
I don’t make predictions, but I share a few principles that work for me: be a mediocre soup, work as a manager, pick product or platform, and be slightly too ambitious!
🥇 Our organizations are being DDoSed from the inside
4 min • by Karri Saarinen
Karri argues that teams and agents now ship changes faster than leaders can understand them, so companies are losing the ability to steer. And just because something already works, it doesn’t mean it belongs in the product.
A very honest piece from the CEO of Linear, and it pairs well with what I wrote last week about managers.
🥈 Software engineers don’t get to be Luddites about AI
5 min • by Sean Goedecke
Sean argues that engineers can’t really take the Luddites’ side, because in that story we are the mechanics who built the looms, and automating other people’s work has always been our job. A bit harsh, but hard to disagree with!
🥉 Practitioner Voice
27 min • by Jim Highsmith
Jim explores a way of writing where your authority comes from having owned the consequences of your work, instead of academic method or thought leadership polish. He also shares how he writes with AI since Parkinson’s changed how he processes language. Long one, but I loved it.
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