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Re:Games Workshop bans staff from using AI, management not e... by oytis on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @05:02PM (#46608907)
> People simply don't respect programming as a creative, human endeavour.

Because it's not? Programmers' ethos is having low attachment to code. People work on code together, often with complete strangers, see it modified, sliced, merged and whatever. If you rename a variable in software or refactor a module, it's still the same software.

Meanwhile for art authorship, authenticity and detail are of utter importance.

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Re:Games Workshop bans staff from using AI, management not e... by jakelazaroff on Tuesday January 13, 2026 @05:23PM (#46609188)
That's no different from any art. It's like saying that woodworkers' ethos is having low attachment to screws, or guitarists' ethos is having low attachment to picks. Code is a tool; the creative, human endeavor is making an artifact that people can perceive and interact with.
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Re:Games Workshop bans staff from using AI, management not e... by oytis on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @04:28AM (#46614051)
So UX is art, not programming? Don't know enough about it to have an opinion. My code almost never interacted with people
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