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dmitrijbelikovtoday at 9:54 AM2 repliesview on HN

Art is a system. And programming is a system too. They are different systems.

> If I learned PHP, I could build back-end applications. If I learned HTML and CSS, I could build websites.

So, what have you been doing for the last 10 years and why i see only 2026 in your github?


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whilenot-devtoday at 10:11 AM

> Art is a system. And programming is a system too. They are different systems.

From a system-centric POV the art world could be considered a system, and the programming world could be considered a system.

Programming is a craft and can therefor be part of an artistic practice as well as many other practices.

What's Art and what isn't is up to each individual and remains generally undefined.

> So, what have you been doing for the last 10 years and why i see only 2026 in your github?

Self-hosted git services are a thing, ya know?

OtherShrezzingtoday at 10:09 AM

I read your comment first, and thought it was a bit uncharitable to the author. But then looking through their social media presence. No sign of commentary before late 2025.

Looking at the wayback machine, the site was first published in January 2026 with no blog. Then in Feb, the site was updated with a blog archive, including posts from 2025, before the site's blog functionality was active.

The blog post ends:

>I don’t use AI when writing. It produces soulless, bland text. AI slop that no one wants to read

But if you look back through earlier essays you see stuff like this:

>Technology evolves. Complacency endures. Building something means taking responsibility for its survival. It’s respect for time that can never be regained

Which has all of the hallmarks of a Claude generated essay (or just a human failing the Turing test).

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