I read a lot of articles of this nature, not necessarily in this specific subject area, and may be guilty of writing some myself. I rarely build anything exactly to its original plans, but I take away bits and pieces, theory, and techniques, and re-combine them for my own purposes.
The value of the whole thing hanging together as a product is that you know the person has worked out the bugs of the individual parts, to the point where the whole thing is testable and reproducible.
This is actually true of the scientific literature as well. People rarely reproduce entire research projects, but often borrow bits and pieces and adapt them for their own use.
The value of the whole thing hanging together as a product is that you know the person has worked out the bugs of the individual parts, to the point where the whole thing is testable and reproducible.
This is actually true of the scientific literature as well. People rarely reproduce entire research projects, but often borrow bits and pieces and adapt them for their own use.