The Different Lifecycles of Software Development

Data scientists might be just looking to explore a concept or understand an idea better, and not necessarily ever intend to put it into production in the traditional software sense. So I've seen some pretty interesting code written that people would look at and go, Oh my goodness, what is there's not even a function here? How is this possible? You know, it's like copying and pastries almost. And yet it really does go from having no idea to pictures and understanding, and then maybe handing that off potentially to be written more robustly, better. It's really interesting. Like they're kind of two very different processes.