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`

Simon MacDonald @macdonst@mastodon.online

3/6/2026, 7:58:16 PM

Public

Seeing all these large companies with downtime due to turning over their code to AI made me think of this meme every time someone suggests we do the same.

A four-panel meme showing a man and a woman sitting side-by-side in a room, having a conversation. The woman looks skeptical while the man speaks confidently, gesturing as he explains his reasoning.

Panel 1: The man says, “Anthropic, GitHub and Microsoft are generating most of their code using AI.”
Panel 2: The woman turns toward him and asks, “Well did it work for those people?”
Panel 3: The man replies matter-of-factly, “No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but…”
Panel 4: He pauses, looks thoughtful, and finishes optimistically: “…but it might work for us.”

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