Winter Is Coming: 'Cracking the Coding Interview' Turned Into Fire Kindling

sterlingcrispin · x · 2026-11-02

Artist Sterling Crispin posted a photo of about seven pounds of "fire kindling" — a copy of Cracking the Coding Interview (189 programming questions & solutions, 6th edition). "Winter is coming," he quipped, telling readers to take their turmeric and glucosamine for sore knees.

The joke lands as AI-culture satire: in the era of AI-written code, the canonical coding-interview prep book is reimagined as obsolete fuel to be burned.

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