[wibbily]

> We're glorified construction workers that get paid a lot

That attitude is my point. I'm a developer by trade; I have a different set of feelings and concerns about "the industry" and how new tooling will affect it. (I even use it sometimes at work.) But I'm also a computer scientist and I thought more of you all were too.

To beat my original analogy to death: I thought this was a painting forum, but it's more of a "making pictures" forum, and now that it's easier to make a picture, no one cares about paintbrushes.

[xeromal]

Yeah, I went to school for computer science but I am in no way a scientist. I'm not doing research and I'm not innovating anything that I already hasn't been built. I'm just building it for who needs it.

The space for innovation in computer science is pretty limited when it comes to constructs like how we build something considering how fully featured libraries and such are. Literally everything I've built in my career has been built better by someone else. If I am a scientist, it's the person in the lab making 10,000 flu shots a day.

I'll just say that my career in the industry as a programmer has made me very good at working on my car and I think they're more intertwined and connected then anything theoretical

[pegasus]

The brush-strokes are part of the painting (they give texture and structure for example), so a painter would care about them, if he'd care for the end product. But a painter who would instead deeply care about details of the brush incidental to the task of creating paintings, by definition got lost in the woods, or at least stopped being a painter for those moments. It makes sense to care for example about the feel and balance of a brush, because that has a direct impact on the artwork, but say, collecting embellished brushes would be him wearing not a painter's hat (beret?) but a collector's.

My point is that the end-product matters most, and getting wrapped in any other part of the process for its own sake is a failing, or at best a distraction - in both cases.

[ineedasername]

> I thought this was a painting forum, but it's more of a "making pictures" forum

It’s more like the discussions space to talk about things related to the painters of hotel art.