Comment by echelon

On the contrary, this is performative.

I've been in the media space, so I've seen artists do this for years now.

It's fucking bullshit. It's like handmade goods (some of which turned out to be sweatshop produced anyway).

At the end of the day all code is ephemeral. It provides value in the here and now. It doesn't doesn't last forever.

Make the thing do the thing and stop worrying about how it was made. None of your code will be around in 200 years.