If we want to equate them then we should aspire to write code that is meaningless while we are alive, while living our entire lives poorly or being completely ostracized in society?
I'm not sure the startup angle jives with the artist's.
Most of the code I've written in my life has been meaningless,
but yes I get paid well. The ostracisation happened to a lot of devs during high school through the invention of the wedgee.
