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Re:Nick Cave on ChatGPT and the creative process by mostlylurks on Thursday August 10, 2023 @04:33PM (#37081393)
It is relatively rare, but software itself (not just the resulting program, such as "a game") can be art. Most examples of this focus on using code to communicate something humorous about the culture surrounding software. I cite FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition [0] as a notable example. There's also code poetry, which encompasses quite a bit more than just humor.

[0]: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...

Re:Nick Cave on ChatGPT and the creative process by fhd2 on Friday August 11, 2023 @03:52AM (#37086194)
Nice example! I also did some reading in the mean time, and I guess for a 17th century definition of "art", a well-written algorithm that does the job efficiently and is easy to reason about would even classify as art. I quite enjoyed the book "Beautiful Code" for this kind of stuff.