>> if someone who is not a programmer but is an artist or a writer, dabbles in programming, it is often met with derision and extreme nitpicking by programmers

> I've honestly never seen this happen and have no idea what kind of person would react this way.

Take a look at some HN user responses to when the Google Will Eat Itself art project was posted here [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=gwei.org

A couple choice examples of the kind of behavior I am talking about:

> I'm pretty sure it would be trivial to write a program that automatically generates modern "art" exhibit descriptions like this one.

> I'm not sure what's worse, the fact that this is a stupid idea - or the background

And so on...