Art is one of the words nobody really agrees on the meaning of. You can only answer "is code art?" given some meaningful definition of "art". According to Duch

Art is one of the words nobody really agrees on the meaning of. You can only answer "is code art?" given some meaningful definition of "art". According to Duchamp an urinal can be art. Presumably code can also then, but it doesn't really confer any addition prestige on code and developers.