If it’s a book, you have the manuscript but no research, notes, or prior revisions. If it’s a program, you have the compiled binary but no source code or anything you would’ve learned writing it. Etc.

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    1 day ago

    If I want to understand it, of course not. You can only truly understand the result if you understand the process, after all. If it’s something mechanical or otherwise uninteresting to me then nah.