This essay is misguided because the author makes the mistake of conflating coding as an activity with coding as a professional job. Both classifications of act

This essay is misguided because the author makes the mistake of conflating coding as an activity with coding as a professional job. Both classifications of activity vs job can coexist. Tim Cook was talking about "fun and interactive" in the context of Swift Playgrounds. Playgrounds is not about writing serious software that calculates the trajectory of a rocket or analyzes DNA samples. Yes, we know that coding can have consequences that kill people. It's as if someone wrote "motorcycles are fun" and an essayist responds with, "Motorcycles are NOT fun. Motorcycling must be looked at as a serious activity because if you're a stuntman performing a jump on a movie set, any amateur misjudgment of timing and speed will get you killed. And if you're a policeman on a motorcycle escorting a Presidential motorcade, you must have situational awareness of sniper threats from anywhere." The author has some legitimate points on how programming (sometimes) must be approached with rigor and discipline but it has nothing to do with Tim Cook's quote. For a lot of programmers, coding is actually a fun thing to do. If someone says "X is fun", you could conceivably write a counterpoint that adds gravitas to X but to do so would be missing the point.