Programming is craft, and like any other craft it can turn into art.
At the same time, most people don’t care about craft ( or beauty ).
The first reason art and necessity were aligned for a long time was because artful good is often more efficient, more maintainable.
The second is that code is the infrastructure of many systems.
The first is gone with AI as it changes the cost equation, the second remains but seems to be wilfully ignored in a tsunami of AI PR.
Programming is craft, and like any other craft it can turn into art. At the same time, most people don’t care about craft ( or beauty ). The first reason art and necessity were aligned for a long time was because artful good is often more efficient, more maintainable. The second is that code is the infrastructure of many systems. The first is gone with AI as it changes the cost equation, the second remains but seems to be wilfully ignored in a tsunami of AI PR.
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