When I started programming, my whole day revolved around development. I’d wake up, write code, and go to sleep. And that’s how it was day in and day out. My entire social circle consisted of people who also wrote code. I studied frameworks, libraries, and various programming languages.
Computer code is not art. It has no aesthetic quality. It’s generally not even seen and frequently hidden.
It’s engineering - you don’t need to get all up yourself by claiming to be “artists”.