Yeah I’m in cryptography and our papers typically have 1-3 authors. Meanwhile the broader computer security conferences routinely have papers with 8+ authors an

Yeah I’m in cryptography and our papers typically have 1-3 authors. Meanwhile the broader computer security conferences routinely have papers with 8+ authors and I’m thinking “How can 8 people write a paper and not produce total garbage?” Well it’s because most of them didn’t actually write anything in the paper, they just contributed to a code base or data collection.