[knl]

Sorry, but this is nonsense. Look at the chubby implementation and the subsequent paper - implementation and edge cases were the hard part, that took a lot of skill to get right. The algorithm is important, but labeling one as easy is far away from real world experiences.

I never assumed that PhD students can’t code. They can and they are pretty good at that. My point is that their incentives are in writing papers and running experiments that support claims in their papers, not produce reliable software. It might be reliable, but mostly it’s not. When we use tools build by PhD students, it’s usually when there are companies/startups built around it, and that is what I refer to as having skin in the game.

[wittycardio]

Fair enough I misunderstood your point then