Hackers' Pub

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`"` 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`

Jon Sterling @jonmsterling@mathstodon.xyz

3/11/2026, 7:49:38 AM

Public

It took me about two weeks to become reasonably effective at “agentic coding”.

It took me years to become a good software engineer and I’m still learning how to be a computer scientist. I think about that a lot when people tell me we should radically change our curriculum to get “up to date” with industrial practice of AI in software engineering.

We should teach the thing that is hard to learn on your own. Anyone with £200 and a couple weeks on their hands can become an expert in agentic coding, if they happen to know something about coding in the first place.

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