For the most part of my works, they materialize in the form of websites. However, for the most part of the time when i was making these works, I was employed as a software engineer.

Now, all the time that I was employed, I can't help but feeling an impostor syndrome that I was never a software engineer. A developer - yes - but a software engineer? What is a software, even? I'm not sure if creating a website counts as a software. I went to google to confirm my concern:

"A website can be considered software, particularly modern dynamic websites, but the distinction depends on functionality. While static HTML pages are technically documents, most websites use JavaScript, CSS, and server-side scripts (PHP, Python) to function as interactive, programmed applications, making them a form of software."

Quoting from Casey Reas back in 20xx, "In contrast, there’s comparatively little FLOSS software within design and arts communities. These domains are dominated by proprietary software, specifically by Adobe Systems and Autodesk." With the onset of AI agents, I think this imbalance is going to shift, causing a boom of free, roaming websites that serves as design tools, or perhaps just be an artistic medium, or maybe just be a useless ironic website! Anyone can make websites now with a few prompts and clear intentions, and now everyone can make their own FLOSS if they want to. But this reminds me of the question someone brought up in the class, the code that is made to create these websites, surely they're gathered from past works that may or may not have been sourced from FLOSS projects. In fact, if we refer to Reas' notes that there is very few FLOSS software in arts and design, then I may assume the AI generated code to create design tools may have been sourced from non-FLOSS softwares. Also quoting a similar line from GNU: "In a world of digital sounds, images, and words, free software becomes increasingly essential for freedom in general."