Three phases of intellectual production for programmers
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About intellectual production in [programmer
Derived from the debate about whether programmers' activities are [intellectual production or knowledge production?
There are three phases between the programmer's activities to create value
1: First, the programmer outputs the program.
You can call this knowledge production if you want, since humans are producing information.
2: A phase in which the output program is combined with the computer to create a tool (tool).
This is "production of tools" and "manufacturing", so it is "production" but not production of information or knowledge.
In Engelbert's Four Classifications, this is the creation of "artifact".
3: Phase in which tools increase customer productivity
The "process by which a person produces something" exists beforehand, and the tools created in Phase 2 improve the productivity of that process.
2019-02-16
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