Facebook\'s algorithms shaping the news.
Speaking to everyone from revered "10X" elites to neophytes, back-end engineers and front-end designers, Thompson explores the distinctive psychology of this vocation--which combines a love of logic, an obsession with efficiency, the joy of puzzle-solving, and a superhuman tolerance for mind-bending frustration..
Thompson goes far deeper, taking us close to some of the great programmers of our time, including the creators of Facebook\'s News Feed, Instagram, Google\'s cutting-edge AI, and more.
From acclaimed tech writer Clive Thompson comes a brilliant anthropological reckoning with the most powerful tribe in the world today, computer programmers, in a book that interrogates who they are, how they think, what qualifies as greatness in their world, and what should give us pause.
In pop culture and media, the people who create the code that rules our world are regularly portrayed in hackneyed, simplified terms, as ciphers in hoodies.
When they make it hard or impossible, we do less of it.
Programmers shape our everyday behavior: When they make something easy to do, we do more of it.
We live in a world constructed of code--and Coders are the ones who built it for us.
Revolution on Twitter and romance on Tinder.
Self-driving cars roaming the streets.
Facebook\'s algorithms shaping the news
