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Cray Research was famous for its machines. Less visible was the culture that made those machines possible.

Living Amongst the Wizards of Cray Research shows what it was like to work inside an environment where we routinely took on what had never been done before.

Through lived experience rather than legend, the book explores how elite engineers thought, argued, debugged, joked, failed, and learned. “Wizardry” is treated not as genius or mystique, but as a method: an accumulation of pattern recognition, patience, intuition, and hard‑won judgment shaped by years of confronting systems that could not be fully understood at once.

\"At Cray Research, we take what we do very seriously, but we don't take ourselves too seriously.\" That includes the real story behind our annual Ducky Day celebration. Along the way, this book examines how cultures of extreme technical excellence sustain themselves. This is a book about living inside demanding systems, learning how experts actually think, and what remains after the mythology fades.

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