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I'd say this article is a stronger argument that "programming can be a hobby" than "programming is an art". Lots of people do lots of things for enjoyment with
by OtherShrezzing 28d ago
I'd say this article is a stronger argument that "programming can be a hobby" than "programming is an art". Lots of people do lots of things for enjoyment without a salary, and we tend not to call all of those things an artform.
There's lots of competing definitions of art, but I don't think the article has reasonably linked programming to any of them. Maybe there's a thin & stretched link to the concept of a starving artist.
- dust-jacket 28d ago100%. Hobby is the word this article was looking for. And I don't think that's less meaningful, or that there's no way people can elevate their hobby to artform. But what the article describes is people with a hobby, not an art.
- d--b 28d agoNot wanting to linger on the definition of art, which is rather vague, but a lot of people will consider their hobby an art form, if there is enough room for mastery. I mean many Japanese people consider that pouring tea can be an art form.
- wavemode 27d agoProgramming (usually) isn't art, it's design. Design is when you arrange something to serve a particular purpose, not just for aesthetic value. In programming we understand that this purpose is not just to make code that looks nice, but also that functions properly, that is maintainable, that communicates its intent, etc. And, it goes without saying, programming is just one activity of the many that encompass "software engineering". There are plenty of people whose hobby is programming, but probably far more whose hobby is actually software engineering, and are fine with LLMs handling the programming part.
- esafak 27d agoThat's why people are so angry. Their livelihood is being reduced to a 'hobby', like stamp collecting. Oh, you code in your space time? How cute!