It's a nice "label" but it's a bit murky what it means the farther away from machine code (the raw materials) you get. Are you an artisan if you use an IDE?
I do enjoy the sentiment however.
So an artisan program would involve many hardcoded variables relevant for a specific user, and hard links that connects files for a specific users computer.
Basically one that has as little abstraction as possible. The end product would look like a script.
Fortunately we have YouTube University and (for now) the Internet Archive, where hopefully current techniques won't be lost, but we'll just have to see how the future goes.
The privilege to use old timey techniques and then sell furniture on the basis that no power tools were used in the making of it is practically the definition of snobby, as if using power tools to make furniture lead to bad energy being imbued in the table that makes it unsuitable for being used as a table. You don't have to buy any furniture if you don't want it, especially if it's poorly made, but power tools don't automatically mean it's poorly made. You can make really shite furniture with hand tools just as much as with power tools.
I, personally, use old and/or shitty equipment and techniques when I do woodworking, for example, like using chisels to make mortise and tenons rather than a fancy plunge router, or just skipping those and using one of those fancy Festool machines that do the "fancy biscuits".
When I program, I mostly use Python these days (don't judge me!) and I tend not to use third party extensions or libraries, so I guess you could say I use the "old school" technique of using the standard library for Python for everything, where if I were trying to make money I would be using `poetry add` for things like requests, flask, etc.
I think irrelevant and out of date tech can be used for making money, but it's a bit harder that way. I personally like using the "old ways" quite often in my personal and professional lives, and not trying to optimize my personal or professional life as much as most do, but I can see that I'm not the norm there, and most people just memory-hole old tech and move on to the next house of cards.