That was my exact thought reading this. I used to write some crazy spaghetti code as an untrained student working in a lab. Coding would go really quickly at f

That was my exact thought reading this. I used to write some crazy spaghetti code as an untrained student working in a lab. Coding would go really quickly at first, but as I kept adding on to accommodate new requirements it became a huge kludgy mess. Recently (after quite a few years of software engineering experience) I helped a researcher friend to build some software. He was following along with my commits and asked why I kept changing the organization and naming of the code, pulling things out into classes, deleting stuff that he thought might be needed later, etc. He spends only a small part of his time writing code, so he's never realized how much time it actually saves to keep things organized and well-factored.