nisha :questified:

@aral@mastodon.ar.al spare a thought for where the clay and marble comes from and who’s mining it.

And I’m pretty sure neither of us are art experts to make an air tight analogy for art and coding.

Let’s instead argue about how much resources are spent making a “somewhat deterministic” code generator and whether all the other “features” are worth it.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al I’ve been using claude.ai to do basic web development - a thing I’m not very good at. I do get a wall of code, but I know enough about how code generally works and where the the functionality I want is located that I can trim out the pieces I don’t want and modify the pieces I do want to get the final result.
I think a good art analogy is sculpting, where rather than mould the medium, you take away from the medium. Either way, you still need to understand and practice.