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> I get that there would be risk, but if it was under the supervision of professors (who hopefully are good at building, not just lecturing theory) […]

Good joke here! If you are actually serious, please tell us which university you encountered where the majority of professors actually did something productive in computer science

Personally, I would not paint all professors with the same shit-stained brush.

Sorry if that came around as rude. From personal experience I have not met any professor in my life who could lead such a project, let alone with students that don’t have any work experience… And you imply there should be multiple of them for the project to succeed

Someone has to maintain the code. Can you imagine making students doing that kind of work? They'd rightly asked to be paid for it. And getting faculty to manage the students doing that kind of work, they'd definitely want extra pay.

>Why not let the computer science students take a crack at building some of those systems?

they need someone to blame if something gone wrong.

This mentality needs to die.