Don't call yourself an artisanal programmer

So I’ve been meaning to write about something, but got sucked into this rabbit hole, and now I’m kinda scared if I’ve been a subject of propaganda that worked on me. A common theme in software development AI discourse is that there are “serious” engineers who value the end result the most, and “artisanal” coders who value the experience of coding over the final product. This dichotomy doesn’t corr...