You can listen to a professional narration of this article below: Article available in Spanish here. The Jet Lag Series: Art or Craft I wrote the following in early February after my trip to Europe (as part of my Jet Lag Series), which started in Switzerland and concluded in Northern Italy (
The same link to Beethoven 9, provided by Vitaliy in an earlier post, has led me to send the following to a number of friends.
A magnificent performance of Beethoven’s 9th symphony, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, Berlin, 1989, in celebration of the destruction of the Wall. The Ode to Joy begins at 0:57:14; the great choral gesture occurs at 1:05:… masterfully timed and choreographed:
I liked how you developed a comparison between art and craft - it's not intuitive that repetition can turn art into craft but it's mainly a way to develop your art.
There are 2 parallels -
a. in music (I play clarinet and saxophones), you need a high level of technique in order to play any of the classical concerti for clarinet - the Copland clarinet concerto requires an especially high level in the entire range of the instrument. If you want to enjoy playing - you need to maintain your technique - practicing every day
b. in software there is an eternal debate if software is an engineering discipline or an art. Similar to art and music, if you repeat frequently, it turns into a craft - which is probably what most programming should be anyhow.
Does AI change this? I think not yet.
AI application development is still an arts and crafts discipline even after the research in theoretical computer science that enables LLMs
Brilliant insights. Thanks for your art and craft of writing.
The same link to Beethoven 9, provided by Vitaliy in an earlier post, has led me to send the following to a number of friends.
A magnificent performance of Beethoven’s 9th symphony, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, Berlin, 1989, in celebration of the destruction of the Wall. The Ode to Joy begins at 0:57:14; the great choral gesture occurs at 1:05:… masterfully timed and choreographed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn0IS-vlwCI
Vitaliy
I liked how you developed a comparison between art and craft - it's not intuitive that repetition can turn art into craft but it's mainly a way to develop your art.
There are 2 parallels -
a. in music (I play clarinet and saxophones), you need a high level of technique in order to play any of the classical concerti for clarinet - the Copland clarinet concerto requires an especially high level in the entire range of the instrument. If you want to enjoy playing - you need to maintain your technique - practicing every day
b. in software there is an eternal debate if software is an engineering discipline or an art. Similar to art and music, if you repeat frequently, it turns into a craft - which is probably what most programming should be anyhow.
Does AI change this? I think not yet.
AI application development is still an arts and crafts discipline even after the research in theoretical computer science that enables LLMs