In Coders, Clive Thompson attributes the claim that the default state of a programmer's work is broken and that programmers self-select for enduring that frustration to programmer Rob Spectre, not Jeff Atwood.

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"In Coders, Clive Thompson attributes the claim that the default state of a programmer’s work is broken and that programmers self-select for enduring that frustration to programmer Rob Spectre, not Jeff Atwood."

Thompson attributes the quoted observation about everything being broken and programmers enduring the resulting agony to Rob Spectre, immediately before introducing Jeff Atwood separately.

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Source title Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World

Source authors Clive Thompson

Source year 2019

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