[boredtofears]

Ive always thought that software is a lot more of a creative expression than we give it credit for. As much as we try to think of it as an engineering discipline, code exists primarily to communicate to other humans before machine. There’s a lot of humanity in writing and reading code and therefore a lot of ways to observe art in it.

[cglan]

It definitely fulfills the same itch as painting or photography for me weirdly. But that goes away the more “corporate” and tedious it is. But luckily my job gives me a lot of leeway. It can be and largely is a creative field I’d say. There’s room for traditional and formal engineering in it, but I don’t think that’s the majority