Since always, it is often just not recognized. Perhaps the same way how a newspaper article has soul and a fingerprint of the author, though you may not recognize it while reading.
> You can do art with anything.
Sure and anything you do can be art.
I don't need "soul" concept to describe the human experience, and if you use it to describe technology, it only makes things more confusing. It only ends up as an attempt to state that some things are not "good" because they don't match your own vague concept of what is good or bad, without explaining why nor what this is.
Before AI I could look at a function and tell you who had written it from inside the (somewhat small) company I worked at.
I’m finding this fascinating personally. The lines people are drawing to try and keep themselves inside some definition they can mark as special.
Contradictio. Going back to Seven...
> AI can be just a tool.
Nothing, ever, is just a tool.
Are you going to expand on this or should we stand in awe?
Programming is a craft. It's not an art, because creating code doesn't comment on, criticise, challenge, distill, or otherwise have anything to do with any human experience outside of programming.