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or the academic people are not interested in putting in the effort to maintain the tool in order to get more adoption.
by tracyhenry 6y ago
or the academic people are not interested in putting in the effort to maintain the tool in order to get more adoption.
- azhenley 6y agoWe aren't incentivized to maintain research prototypes. On the flip side, industry seems to have very little interest in adopting our findings into products.
- tracyhenry 6y ago> We aren't incentivized to maintain research prototypes There are still examples where research prototypes have evolved into successful products, either as open source projects or commercial companies. The researcher needs to be passionate enough about getting adoption and real-world impact in order for this to work. > On the flip side, industry seems to have very little interest in adopting our findings into products. IMO, developer tools need to be wayyyy better to overcome inertia. This statement might not hold in other fields, e.g., ML/AI.
- pharmakom 6y agoAny manager worth their salt would invest in a tool for 4x productivity. Facebook and Google spend a fortune on internal tooling. And yet these tools are forgotten. That’s why I’m suspicious of the reported gains.