When the developer is inexperient, programming is similar to art. You see hacky stuff and sometimes "innovation" that a senior engineer would just call dirty co

When the developer is inexperient, programming is similar to art. You see hacky stuff and sometimes "innovation" that a senior engineer would just call dirty code. Senior engineers however don't do art unless they are explicitly doing it like with computer graphics or other kinds or computer-based art generation, or through movements like hacktivism that are certainly quite poetic. Otherwise it's so far away from art, regular APIs aren't art, databases aren't art, operating systems aren't art. Many engineers have the need to call themselves artists, you should have taken drawing lessons if you wanted to be artists because regular engineering for business is maintainable just if it's as standard as possible and let me tell you that is the opposite of art.