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Academics aren't paid to code. Academics are paid to do research.

Professional coders are paid to code.



Maybe this is unusual, but I've seen labs hire CS grad students to write their code. I always assumed this was widespread practice.


That is usually done for large research projects that collaborate with industry and require high quality code (e.g. EU-funded project "HOBBIT"; https://project-hobbit.eu/)




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