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Is code art? Maybe in the broadest sense, but I view it more as craft; something between industrial design and carpentry. "Implausible", you say. "Individual machine instructions are anonymous, interchangeable." But then so are pixels in a pixel art image, and those machine instructions pile up...

15/6/26, 7:40 pm0 reposts7 likes

Luno

@lunoland.com

15 June

...at some point (when exactly is a negotiation between you and society), all of these little instructions and design decisions come together to describe a unique, *authored* work: a new piece of software. Your code is no more or less instrumental than materials in carpentry.

Luno

@lunoland.com

15 June

But there's a *difference in kind* between using pre-cut lumber and supervising an Ikea factory. So do you wanna be a carpenter, or a factory foreman? How many foremen do they need at an autonomous factory anyway? (Yes I'm talking about AI code. I am begging you to have some self respect.)