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It's not just researchers. Engineers at Google get to spin up products and throw spaghetti at walls, too.

This might have been true 10-15 years ago. I assure you it is not the case today.

Yup, it still is. Maybe it was more prevalent or expected 15 years ago, but it still happens all the time today.

Google is not a monolith, both can be true.