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As long as you're creating something, what's the difference?

Are you not an artist if you've only painted things for your own enjoyment, and never any commissioned worrk?



The differences is that an artist doesn't have to worry about maintainability, scalability, orthogonality, or any other such concerns.

Art is art, code is code. Art is beautiful, code is clever. They are different.


More like: are you not an auto mechanic if you've only worked on your own car, tricking it out in ways that you enjoy?

No, you are not an auto mechanic.




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