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Maybe because art art school you always do the same thing: so doing it continually for one semester or restarting projects on shorter times, the final thing would be quite the same, except that if you work on more small projects, you will maybe learn faster.

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And, your art is yours. No artist is able to do huge harm to a whole industry by releasing some crappy painting with terrible design choices. They're only harming themselves and/or their reputation.

There is a parallel though: bad art is weeded out over time, the good stuff remains. In software it is quite similar, the good stuff has staying power, the bad stuff will be forgotten soon enough. The average half-life of a typical javascript framework is quite telling in this respect.

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