The Hybrid Leader
Pavel JiranekFor senior developers and engineering leaders figuring out how AI is changing software work, team systems, ownership, and decisions.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 55 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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5 Things Worth Knowing This Week #5
Hi friends,
This is the fifth edition, and I’m still experimenting with what works best for these weekly picks.
Three of this week’s five stories came from GitHub. I noticed, but couldn’t find a good reason to replace any of them just to...
5 Things Worth Knowing This Week #4
Hi friends,
On the project I work on, we were preparing another release of our SDK this week.
Unfortunately, the frontier labs beat us to it. 🤭
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5, OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and Luna, and xAI added Grok 4....
Old Questions for New Machines
A few days ago, my thoughts were just wandering, and I remembered a quote:
What you are, we were. What we are, you will be.
And since I don’t remember it in Latin, I had ChatGPT translate it and explain how it’s pronounced.
Quod estis, f...
5 Things Worth Knowing This Week #3
Hi friends,
This week ran on a slightly different schedule than usual.
I spent more than half of it away with the project team, working from the countryside. The weather was kind to us and the work was productive, but the change of rhythm...
5 Things Worth Knowing This Week #2
Hi friends,
I’m writing with the window open and enjoying the light but steady rain outside. The weather has settled down, and it’s pleasantly cool and rainy, exactly to my liking.
Last week, I put together my first selection of 5 things...
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\ud83d\udcbb Software engineer & former team lead with 19+ years in software. Writing from inside the work about people, code, AI, decisions, and how software teams are changing.
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