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Most solutioning is art, given that you should have more than one way to reach the target state and target state itself is negotiable and non-concrete. When the
by gps372 10d ago
Most solutioning is art, given that you should have more than one way to reach the target state and target state itself is negotiable and non-concrete. When there are multiple options you are forced to analyze between them, sometimes you have a preferred option if the analysis has been done before. Your choices while solutioning will reflect your experience and how you think. In short, it definitely reflects 'you'.
You make similar kind of choices while programming as well. Hence, programming is definitely an art since there are many ways something can be implemented, almost to the level that you can recognize who has written the code by seeing the code itself. Most such programmers don't even have the visibility to higher level goals of the org they are working in, I used to be in this group earlier.
I remember it used to be a 'problem' for a lot of senior developers, who used to ask for consistency in how code is written, like spacing between keywords, indentation, start/end of parenthesis, naming convention, etc. Wondering if they'll settle for more 'Soul' in the code now :). Or maybe, they have permanently shifted to the other groups now - where only the output matters.
- dust-jacket 10d ago> Most solutioning is art, given that you should have more than one way to reach the target state and target state itself is negotiable and non-concrete. When there are multiple options you are forced to analyze between them, sometimes you have a preferred option if the analysis has been done before. Your choices while solutioning will reflect your experience and how you think. In short, it definitely reflects 'you'. This is an very broad definition of 'art'. By this metric, I'm pretty sure me choosing what to have for lunch is art.
- gps372 10d agoI think art's definition would be even broader. Anything that involves your imagination, skill, ideas and analysis (applying yourself to the choices in front of you) would be art. Just googled and verified this, btw. If choosing what to have for lunch is making you involve your imagination and analyse choices, then I guess it would fall in the category of art. And due to restraints of time, budget and prior experiences, you might go for default choices anyways.
- dust-jacket 10d ago/shrugs OK. Well I am clearly an art master of lunch planning. Who knew?
- gps372 10d ago>> Who knew? You must have 'mastered' this art. Unless you are willing to share this mastery and ask for feedback, only you would know!
- dust-jacket 9d agoWell I do make a pretty good sandwich :)
- KurSix 10d agoIf AI makes code more stylistically uniform, it might actually make those deeper choices more visible
- gps372 10d agoYeah! Thus showing a mirror of the deeper 'you' to yourself. Interesting thought!