March 31, 2026
2026 Reading Recommendations (living document)
Some of my favorite reads this year, from AI to tech tooling.
1 Quarter deep in 2026, I’ll already faced some interesting reads 🙂 Being knee deep in my own AI adoption journey, most articles that catched my interest are top tier engineers sharing their thoughts on AI adoption and how it changes their personal workflow.
AI Related Reads
- https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey
Mitchel Hashimoto, Founder of Hashicorp (Terraform) shares his AI Adoption Journey
- https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skills
Antrophic did an observational study on the impact & transformation of coding skills with AI assistance. I could not agree more to
Cognitive effort—and even getting painfully stuck—is likely important for fostering mastery
- https://apenwarr.ca/log/20260316
Fantastic read on how the Tailscale CEO sees the current developments. Using AI to eliminate whole classes of review comments, comparing AI with the first occurrence of e.g. linters is an interesting take.
Tech Tooling
https://anhthang.org/posts/2025-09-25-manage-dot-files-with-git - Managing dotfiles with Git
Absolutely clever git based solution to manage your dotfiles easily in a personal git repo without having to add extra tooling or managing loads of files you don’t care for.
I also adapted this approach for my skills repo
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