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`

Mark Reid @mdreid@mastodon.social

2/19/2026, 3:55:14 AM

Quiet public

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mweagle/116094890775644613

“The “author” abstraction is breaking, and that’s load-bearing for the entire [software development] flow. Code review assumed someone wrote the code and could explain it… When the author is an AI agent, review shifts from “check a colleague’s logic” to “reverse-engineer unfamiliar code written by a system that can’t explain its choices.” That’s a fundamentally different cognitive task, and it’s slower per line, not faster — even as the volume of code to review goes up.”

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