I have been programming for 16 years now. I am glad AI arrived because I was getting sick of it anyway. You can’t call Art a form of plumbing different blocks together with business glue logic. It just highlights that we were plumbing all those frameworks and tools together in order to produce piece of code that businesses or individuals are willing to pay for.
When I was a junior developer I did see programming as an art but I really don’t see it anymore. What is important is the output. And does the output is in accordance to its design and functions as intended.
You can produce great software with any code or programming languages that you can think of. Some tools and practices produce them faster and/or with higher quality and correctness.
You can replicate the same product with almost any programming language now and good software practices now. AI makes the writing process a breeze but doesn’t solve what is art: the design and the vision (why and what). Therefore I think you can’t call the process of production an art. It’s really not that special.
When I was a junior developer I did see programming as an art but I really don’t see it anymore. What is important is the output. And does the output is in accordance to its design and functions as intended.
You can produce great software with any code or programming languages that you can think of. Some tools and practices produce them faster and/or with higher quality and correctness.
You can replicate the same product with almost any programming language now and good software practices now. AI makes the writing process a breeze but doesn’t solve what is art: the design and the vision (why and what). Therefore I think you can’t call the process of production an art. It’s really not that special.