Working on the next paper is seem as the better choice.

Moreover if your code is easy for others to run then you're likely to be hit with people wanting support, or even open yourself to the risk of someone finding errors in your code (the survey's result, not my own beliefs).

There are other issues, of course. Just running the code doesn't mean something is replicable. Science is replicated when studies are repeated independently by many teams.

There are many other failure modes SOTA-hacking, benchmarking, and lack of rigorous analysis of results, for example. And that's ignoring data leakage or other more silly mistakes (that still happen in published work! In work published in very good venues even)

Authors don't do much of anything to disabuse readers that they didn't simply get really look with their pseudorandom number generators during initialization, shuffling, etc. As long as it beats SOTA who cares if it is actually a meaningful improvement? Of course doing multiple runs with a decent bootstrap to get some estimation of the average behavior os often really expensive and really slow, and deadlines are always so tight. There is also the matter that the field converged on a experimentation methodology that isn't actually correct. Once you start reusing test sets your experiments stop being approximations of a random sampling process and you quickly find yourself outside of the grantees provided by statistical theory (this is a similar sort of mistake as the one scientists in other fields do when interpreting p-values). There be dragons out there and statistical demons might come to eat your heart or your network could converge to an implementation of nethack.

Scale also plays into that, of course, and use of private data as the other comment mentioned.

Ultimately Machine Learning research is just too competitive and moves too fast. There are tens of thousands (hundreds maybe?) of people all working on closely related problems, all rushing to publish their results before someone else published something that overlaps too much with their own work. Nobody is going to be as careful as they should, because they can't afford to. It's more profitable to carefully find the minimal publishable amount of work and do that, splitting a result into several small papers you can pump every few months. The first thing that tends to get sacrificed during that process is reliability.

It's better to have very shallow conversations where you keep regenerating outputs aggressively, only picking the best results. Asking for fixes, restructuring or elaborations on generated content has fast diminishing returns. And once it made a mistake (or hallucinated) it will not stop erring even if you provide evidence that it is wrong, LLMs just commit to certain things very strongly.

The more I hear about Windows 11 makes me think I really dodged a bullet there.