The shitty code/do it supposedly once is quite widespread in academia, and from what I have heard also in at least some biotech companies. The problem: irrepro

The shitty code/do it supposedly once is quite widespread in academia, and from what I have heard also in at least some biotech companies. The problem: irreproducible results. Once you chain dozens of command lines, unversioned shitty scripts, no md5 checksum-ed inputs/intermediate results etc. you are in a smelly swamp full of monsters. Even you one week later will not be able to do it again. Markdown docs/jupyter notebooks are minimum even if one does quick and dirty proof of concept thingy IMHO.