It is accompanied by its close cousin, a fierce devotion to efficiency. Since they have, at their beck and call, machines that can repeat instructions with robotic perfection, coders take a dim view of doing things repetitively themselves. They have a dislike of inefficiency that is almost aesthetic—they recoil from it as if from a disgusting smell. Any opportunity they have to automate a process, to do something more efficiently, they will. (Sanghvi even extended this to her nuptials. Her mother wanted to arrange Sanghvi’s marriage in India, and Sanghvi agreed, because it struck her as far more efficient than dating—which you could regard, from a purely computer-scientific point of view, as a woefully resource-intensive sorting algorithm. “I was a big fan of arranged marriages,” as she said once in a speech. “It appealed to the engineer in me. They’re practical, and they had a higher probability of succeeding.”)