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by zquzra 1113 days ago
Picasso painted Man in a Beret when he was 14 years old. His art became "nonsense" because realism was boring for him.
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Lots of programmers get bored of writing simple line-of-business code and find ways to make it more interesting for themselves. It doesn't generally lead to a program that's better for the end user though.