A review by walices
Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World by Clive Thompson

medium-paced

3.25

The fact that the book is split up into sections is very helpful, because I skipped the entire section about AI (keep in mind that this book was published before the COVID pandemic...) Overall, it gave lots of insight into how the CS job market is faring and what it'll evolve into in the future. I think every person who's involved with CS or cybersec should be familiar with what's happening in the world and the history of big startups such as Grubhub (I don't actually remember what other startups they talked about whoops!) There's also a section discussing "computer spouses," literally just going over what it feels like to date and live with an avid programmer, which was funny. 

I just gave it a 3.25 rating because it doesn't get into the technical nitty gritty as much, which is both a good and bad thing. Bad because it comes off feeling like a shell of what it's trying to cover. Good because laypeople can understand everything the book is referring to. Overall, however, very solid book with lots of interviews with people in and surrounding the industry.