After trying Opus, artist drops 'working with code' from a 15-year-old bio
pixlpa · x · 2026-09-27
Artist kcimc changed a bio reading "artist working with code" — unchanged for 15 years — to just "artist" after trying Opus. Reposting, pixlpa reflects that emphasizing code itself never resonated with their practice: code was merely one of several ways to express an interest in systems and maintain a rare, elusive relationship with underlying technology. A small but telling cultural moment about AI coding eroding the identity of writing code by hand.
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