Well I guess I'll pat myself on the back for always using git. Having seen a lab's major university research project literally evaporate due to lack of proper

Well I guess I'll pat myself on the back for always using git. Having seen a lab's major university research project literally evaporate due to lack of proper version control I've been keen on it ever since. Besides, I like the incremental feel of accomplishment when I make the next commit. I agree that setting up a dedicated pipeline early on in a project and committing yourself to work within its confines aids organization, but it also contributes to putting your creativity in the right place. We often enjoy building things for the sake of building and those of us with stronger proclivities towards engineering can sometimes get too jolly putting together new pipes when we should be training models. I have been guilty in the past of writing a Perl script that spawned shell scripts that cued Perl scripts on a cluster that ran R scripts that piped back into Perl scripts. Then again I always liked the boardgame Mouse Trap.