the real value of publishing papers as a software person is that even if your code bitrots in two years, even if your company goes bankrupt in six months, you can still burn a record of what you did into the noosphere for your next-generation mindkin
the true audience of a paper is an enthusiastic undergrad in a country you’ve never been to working on something no one around them cares about twenty years after you’ve already left the field

@maxkreminski It's me. I'm the enthusiastic undergrad

Huh. What do you mean i'm a PhD student