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i’m not calling anyone out but something the last year has really taught me is how many coders think of themselves as sculptors or painters, rather than builders or plumbers

brennan

@brennan.computer

27 July

I do think that's sorta just real though - there are builders who merely put up buildings and there are builders who sculpt architecture and they are both working in the same mediums and often the same materials to different outcomes and different personal philosophies of work perhaps all jobs do

norvid_studies

@norvid-studies.bsky.social

27 July

not that related but it sounds like it is, close enough

brennan

@brennan.computer

I'll have to go back and revisit those, it's been a long time but I think that's the idea -- this is a painter and this is a painter, and saying "I'm a painter" is accurate as a job description but insufficient at describing basically anything else

27/7/26, 9:35 pm1 repost19 likes

norvid_studies

@norvid-studies.bsky.social

27 July

image of the first guy with a claude-ended roller dipping it in the tokens remaining bucket and then painting the codebase wall

wariziles

@riziles.bsky.social

27 July

You just lather the stone in Claude meal and watch the little guys attack the thing and unlock the beauty within.

austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻)

@thebadcode.com

27 July

i always thought coders who called themselves artists were speaking metaphorically, like in a taking pride in your craft-sense

garrison

@garrison.corporate.fm

27 July

what's the difference?

austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻)

@thebadcode.com

27 July

garrison i said i wasn’t going to call anyone out

brennan

@brennan.computer

27 July

(for the record, I don't think either of these are good or bad - we merely need both of them? we need wall painters and canvas painters, we need chefs and linecooks, we need housebuilders and homebuilders, and so on. there are some coders who are artist and crafters, and some aren't; need 'em too)