"Clive Thompson describes a post-2008 cohort of “brogrammers” who might previously have pursued Wall Street careers but instead found an avenue to wealth and power in Silicon Valley."
In Coders, p. 58, Thompson explicitly links the 2008 financial collapse with a new wealth- and power-oriented Silicon Valley cohort he calls “brogrammers”, contrasting their motivations with older hacker traditions centered on intellectual fascination with code.
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