{"id":1026,"date":"2025-08-02T10:19:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2025-08-02T10:19:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T10:19:57","slug":"the-cracked-coder-fetish-max-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/02\/the-cracked-coder-fetish-max-read\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe \u2018Cracked Coder\u2019 fetish &#8211; Max Read"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cBut in Silicon Valley, steeped in I.Q. fetishism, an obsession with \u201cagency,\u201d and a moral universe still governed by fantasy high-school resentments, the belief that (heritable) single-vector \u201cintelligence\u201d endows one with full-spectrum authority (and, inversely, that failure to demonstrate this intelligence is delegitimizing), holds sway. \u201cJust put 10 cracked programmers in charge of it\u201d has become the (admittedly at least somewhat trollish) stance of the Tech Right when faced with any sufficiently un-deferential institution, enterprise, or bureaucracy\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maxread.substack.com\/p\/the-cracked-coder-fetish\">https:\/\/maxread.substack.com\/p\/the-cracked-coder-fetish<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBut in Silicon Valley, steeped in I.Q. fetishism, an obsession with \u201cagency,\u201d and a moral universe still governed by fantasy high-school resentments, the belief that (heritable) single-vector \u201cintelligence\u201d endows one with full-spectrum authority (and, inversely, that failure to demonstrate this intelligence is delegitimizing), holds sway. \u201cJust put 10 cracked programmers in charge of it\u201d has&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[5,3,4,65],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links_read","tag-extract","tag-linksread","tag-mastodon","tag-rss_source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1027,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/posse.keithlewiskeithlewis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}