Comment by omoikane

The examples seem to lean toward "code as means to an end", e.g. making random tools. There is also recreational programming where the code itself is the goal. Examples include IOCCC[1] and a lot of stuff by Yusuke Endoh[2]. I also have a few[3].

[1] https://www.ioccc.org/years.html

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/mame

[3] https://uguu.org/sources.html