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> the phenomenon of “scientific code”

I have some experience being a software engineer in a data science team or in a team adjacent to a DS team, a lot of problems that they think are "data science problems" are actually software engineering problems being solved in an extremely convoluted and weird way.

I think that if DS community wasn't so resistant to basic SE good practices, or involved engineers in making architectural decisions, total time and effort needed to solve some problems would be greatly reduced.

When I'm in a bad mood, I even entertain a silly conspiracy theory in my head: they do everything in the most ugly and weird way specifically to keep people like me out :)