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In the mythos of the tech world, no figure looms larger than the “cracked coder.” To be cracked is to be absurdly talented, to master the logic of programming, to transcend time and space writing code that sings, and to do so with such speed and efficiency as to defy belief. In Silicon Valley fables, these young prodigies don’t just build great software.
Jeremiah Johnson is a contributing writer at The Dispatch, the co-founder of the Center for New Liberalism, and writer of the Infinite Scroll newsletter.
