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In most industries the tool makers are separate from the users.

True, but I’m not sure software development is one of those industries.

Someone who makes pencils is not necessarily an artist, and vice versa. They require different skills and have different goals.

But where do someone who draws with those pencils, someone who makes colour-by-numbers books, and someone who uses the pencils to fill in those colour-by-numbers books fit into this analogy?




My thought is that we're too young for it to be separate, but it'll come, and probably not too long from now.




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