By "artists" the article means painters, and then they compare programmers to artists (again: painters). I'm a painter, an artist generally, and I do program a

By "artists" the article means painters, and then they compare programmers to artists (again: painters). I'm a painter, an artist generally, and I do program a bit. Neither of those things are the comparable. Each requires a completely different perspective and state of mind. This is where the attention to details comes from: working on details.