Hackers' Pub

Syntax	Description	Examples
`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Christine Lemmer-Webber @cwebber@social.coop

3/4/2026, 3:07:18 PM

Public

The AI Vampire https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163

In which Steve Yegge, formerly an interesting tech blogger, now of Gas Town, realizes that becoming a "10x engineer" through vibecoding is actually just transferring wealth to the bosses and is *more* exhausting than before AI agents got involved. Halfway through realizes, maybe there's someway for workers to... collectively... bargain? If only set theory had some term that could describe such a process.

Nonetheless, this doesn't seem to have changed the direction Yegge is pushing at all https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-the-wasteland-a-thousand-gas-towns-a5eb9bc8dc1f

The AI Vampire

This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.

steve-yegge.medium.com · Medium

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