There's fundamentally 3 architypes of programmers, divided by which ideals we hold in highest esteem:

• You are a poet and a mathematician. Programming is your poetry
• You are a hacker. You make hardware dance to your tune
• You are a maker. You build things for people to use

And you don't have to pick one - I realize myself jumping between the three when coding. I often aim for the most beautiful code possible but can easily relegate to the rest when facing real-life challenges.