Drafting drafting drafting. There'll be a blog in a few days on code and stuff. i'm enjoying writing it.

The summary is “No. Release any code is not good advice. No. It doesn’t matter that students are not professional programmers. You have to teach them to write. You have to teach them to write code too.”

Just like a grad student’s, RA’s, postdoc’s, or PI’s writing is part of a journey they’re taking to be better at writing, so too is their coding. If you’re a PI and you can’t code have some humility and learn with your lab. Or learn enough and style it out.

A sizeable portion of your job as even a mildly successful faculty member is forensic accounting and curriculum design and you weren’t trained in that either.

Also, like, honey I’ve got bad news. If you do quant work in 2019 you’re likely being paid to program. So you are a professional programmer (like you’re a professional writer, educator, manager, accountant, etc). I personally am a shit professional programmer who’s working on it.