[anon_123g987]

> In my experience, the published paper is super vague on the approach, and implementing it without further references is really hard.

This is my experience, too, and in my opinion this is exactly what has to change for really reproducible research, not ready to run software supplied by the author.

There are many good arguments in support of publishing code, but reproducibility is not one of them, that's all I'm saying.

[dr_zoidberg]

And just like OP said, it generally takes a couple of months to go from paper to working code. I've implemented a few papers as code as a side-gig for a while, and I wouldn't mind having a baseline from the authors to check and see if I'm following the paper correctly!