> We aren't incentivized to maintain research prototypes There are still examples where research prototypes have evolved into successful products, either as op

> 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.