2026-07-27 00:18 UTC
Code is art. I work at a studio full of ungodly talented artists, but I will still die on this hill. Code is often messy and dirty and it's a pain to create and get right but the results reflect the personality of the creator and the pain of the creation. Just like the rest of art. Sometimes you have to look at the source code to see that, but it's there if you look for it, hidden beneath the surface.
AI generated code is not art.
(10/10)
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@levork@graphics.social 2026-07-27 00:18
I think that's plenty unhinged ranting for now. I'm sure someone years from now will point out that I wrote the most boring code, but man, did I write long commit logs, sometimes full of snark. Maybe that's the only artistic footprint I'll leave behind on a decades old code base. I hope at least it's an immediately recognizable footprint. (11/10, oops)