alt Hacker NewsI'm a coder, potter, and (sometimes) writer. This post is content-free, insight-free nonsense.
You can find parallels between any two things if you strain hard enough, but just listing them doesn't necessarily convey any new ideas.
Code is nothing like clay, and coding is nothing like potting.
To paraphrase a wise bot: like everything else in life, coding is just a primitive, degenerate form of bending.
Humans relate concepts to established concepts and world views, it’s a form of prejudice, and has philosophical resonance with premature optimization being the root of some not great thinking.