Top things I have read this week 🏆
Week 32 / 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 👇
🌀 Summer AI Coding Updates
8 min • by Luca Rossi
This week I wrote my monthly update on how I am working at the frontier with AI coding. It covers Tolaria's progress, custom gates, forking open source, and how I use the latest models.
🥇 The Conductor Developer
4 min • by Rachel Laycock
Rachel is CTO at Thoughtworks and has a good frame for what AI is doing to software development. The developer becomes more like an orchestra conductor, who needs to keep the whole system in their head while many agents play different, specialized parts. This feels directionally right to me, which makes me forgive that the article itself feels a little bit AI-generated :)
🥈 LLMs Reward Expertise
4 min • by Sean Goedecke
Sean’s take matches my own experience: when working with AI, the better you know the domain, the better questions you can ask, the harder you can steer the model, the faster you can spot weak answers, and so on. In other words, AI massively rewards expertise.
🥉 Don’t Be a Meat Proxy
2 min • by Niklas Gruhn
If you use AI in a team, your job is to read, check, compress, and contextualize what AI gives you, before you pass it on to other people. Otherwise, people might as well talk to the model directly.
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