- Research is an iterative creative process. The creation of the code is an organic process of discovery and not a separate stage from writing it's specification.
- The jobs are too small to split up. This is the same in industry. Try to split up a small task (1 person, 2 weeks) over a small team of specialists (Analyst, programmer, DB specialist, dev-ops, tester and now you need a project manager, ...) and suddenly it becomes way, way larger than it should be.
- Most production programmers realy dislike working in research environments. The objectives and nature of research code is very different from what turns-on and drives professional programmers, so you wouldn't have 'the best professional programmers' working there anyway.
Being able to code well enough to do your own experiments is part of the researcher's skill-set. Grad students should become 'good enough' at it. >
Let's not kidd ourselves. Independent academic research is a constant struggle for funds. Nobody is going to pay for a magnitude increase in the costs. If you are looking to up the quality, best look into how to get academic research out of the ridiculous quantified output metrics conundrum.
- Research is an iterative creative process. The creation of the code is an organic process of discovery and not a separate stage from writing it's specification.
- The jobs are too small to split up. This is the same in industry. Try to split up a small task (1 person, 2 weeks) over a small team of specialists (Analyst, programmer, DB specialist, dev-ops, tester and now you need a project manager, ...) and suddenly it becomes way, way larger than it should be.
- Most production programmers realy dislike working in research environments. The objectives and nature of research code is very different from what turns-on and drives professional programmers, so you wouldn't have 'the best professional programmers' working there anyway.
Being able to code well enough to do your own experiments is part of the researcher's skill-set. Grad students should become 'good enough' at it. >
Let's not kidd ourselves. Independent academic research is a constant struggle for funds. Nobody is going to pay for a magnitude increase in the costs. If you are looking to up the quality, best look into how to get academic research out of the ridiculous quantified output metrics conundrum.