> I feel like that's an attitude that's particularly common among software engineers: see an artifact as its surface presentation and nothing more. I think the

> I feel like that's an attitude that's particularly common among software engineers: see an artifact as its surface presentation and nothing more. I think there's no there there. Most of my time as a software engineer is spent understanding what someone else was thinking and trying to accomplish at the time through the lens of the code they ended up writing. Is that archaeological endeavor not strongly connected to if not exactly what we're talking about here? It's just that I also know how to enjoy looking at things without any of that.