I’ve experienced similar.
One thing that helped: separating research code from production.
Research is to answer a decision problem and much of that optimization problems that are in software engineering do not, and should not, apply.
Once the research problem is answered. Reproducing that answer with production quality systems should be it’s own project. This also serves as a reproduction of the science in the research. Satisfying that hallmark of the scientific method.
Course, getting a company to agree to such an arrangement is near impossible. Especially if they have never been crippled by the mismatch expectations of putting research code in production.
As that is an organizational problem not just an engineering problem, good luck convincing management.
An alternative, if I can’t get such an arrangement is the building a platform that supports integration of research code. That can be… uh… hard. Aside from the people challenges not all tech can support such a platform.
0xc0ba17@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Mathematicians and scientists are notoriously awful programmers. They get shit done but with absolutely 0 regard to good practices and reusability.
coloredgrayscale@programming.dev 1 year ago
Would have thought mathematicians would be slightly better at writing functions