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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

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

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

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

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

what's the difference?

(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)

What people want to be oft mismatches what buyers want to buy. Software will probably become less of a refuge profession for people who wanted to be creative at (well-paid) work.