This is an incredibly high-profile type of result, so in this case people are willing to spend a lot of resources replicating this result, even if the paper app

This is an incredibly high-profile type of result, so in this case people are willing to spend a lot of resources replicating this result, even if the paper appears half-baked and unfinished. Most scientific results aren’t like that: people will be enthusiastic about polished work but won’t waste any time on something half-baked. Think about how many “Show HN” posts don’t get voted up to the front page. Now imagine there is no HN and no voting system to rank posts, and also you didn’t have anyone test your code so your cool project immediately crashes on 50% of browsers.