Not sure what you mean by hipster idiots in this context, although I agree with your overall point. I can explain at least one reason to write a rhythym-based poem generator [0] – the problem lends itself to some interesting code :) I'd never claim that it's a valuable tool for creating "art", but it was fun to write and because of it I've thought a lot more about what "art" is and isn't. And, Sussman liked it!
> We are excited when we found an unexpected, rare gem, a verbalization (an expression!) of what we felt ourselves, but still been unable to express (same experience with reading source code of the best (Norvig, rtm+PG, Sysoev, etc.))
Really well written; the frisson of recognizing one's own experience described by someone else is both validating and comforting.
I am working with tourists in Himalaya, so I am biased against hipsters (role-playing governed behavior).
For a poet it is a process of verbalization of non-verbal insights (side-effects of conditioning), for a reader it is recognition of ones own insights from someone else's verbalizations. Types are irrelevant here.)
> We are excited when we found an unexpected, rare gem, a verbalization (an expression!) of what we felt ourselves, but still been unable to express (same experience with reading source code of the best (Norvig, rtm+PG, Sysoev, etc.))
Really well written; the frisson of recognizing one's own experience described by someone else is both validating and comforting.
[0]: https://github.com/peterldowns/bard