Top things I have read this week 🏆
Week 30 / 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 👇
🌀 The State of AI Impact in Engineering
8 min • by Luca Rossi
This week I wrote about what data from 500+ teams says about AI impact in engineering. It turns out adoption is taken for granted now, and leaders have to justify AI budgets by showing what AI is actually delivering in speed, quality, and outcomes.
🥇 We 3.5x’d Our Pull Requests with AI: Now We Catch Fewer Bugs
5 min • by Pawel Brodzinski
A detailed, real-world write-up about the impact of AI on a team’s code reviews. PRs went from 200 to 800 lines on average, and reviewers started missing more things. Worth checking out.
🥈 American AI is locked down and proprietary. It’s losing.
3 min • by Ben Werdmuller
Ben makes a sharp argument that open models may win for the same reasons open infra usually wins: distribution, portability, and permissionless innovation. I am not sure the geopolitical framing is the whole story, but I really like the business point is strong.
🥉 Reverse-engineering is cheap now
1 min • by Simon Willison
Tiny post, big ideas. Agents make throwaway code extremely cheap, so entire categories of “not worth it” automation suddenly become worth trying. Simon gives the example of reverse-engineering home devices, which I have tried myself many times! If AI makes weird small projects viable, I am all for 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