Great blogpost by @glyph: "Programming Isn't Special" https://blog.glyph.im/2026/10/programming-isnt-special.html
People have rejected slop for art, writing, music, etc. You'll even see a few prominent vibecoding enthusiasts claim they would NEVER deign let an LLM write a word on their blog. There's this sense that those things are art, but code is like, functional, you know?
But lots of things that are functional are art. Including code. So code isn't special... because it *is* special, like everything else 💜
@cwebber @glyph like any form of art, programming is an art form that fights back. And the fight is what makes the resulting art beautiful. Taking away the fight makes the art dull.