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If this were true, there would be a large market for artisan code. There isn't. That doesn't take anything away from the knowledge work that happens when you d
by jpswade 10d ago
If this were true, there would be a large market for artisan code. There isn't.
That doesn't take anything away from the knowledge work that happens when you develop software, but the code itself is not the art. The solution is the art.
Perhaps like most popular art, it's more about the story behind it.
- aleph_minus_one 10d ago> If this were true, there would be a large market for artisan code. There isn't. Nearly every designer and artist knows that artisan stuff does not bring in the money, but rather commissions for "everyday stuff"; in German there exists the term "Eisdielen-Jobs" [1] ("ice cream parlor jobs") for commissioned, boring, "everyday" design jobs like, as the term implies, creating the design and illustrations for a menu map of an ice cream parlor. -- [1] https://www.spiegel.de/karriere/illustrator-als-beruf-kreative-moeglichkeiten-fuer-wenig-lohn-a-951641.html https://www.spiegel.de/karriere/illustrator-als-beruf-kreati...
- vatsachak 10d agoThere is a large market for artisan code. It's called open source. Good code is pretty much the solution with some boilerplate tacked on.
- gfdhjd3 10d ago[dead]
- dust-jacket 10d agoI'm grumbled in other comments here about definitions of art that are so vague that they're just "anything where you think a bit" But I'd take them every time over a definition of art being "something for which there is a market". Screw that.
- deaton 10d agoThere probably will be soon, given the reliability issues associated with vibe software. Whats probably going away is the hand-coded "it technically works" slop we've been cranking out for decades, since companies realized it was cheaper to have bad code.