> Perhaps I'm imagining it

You are not. A disproportionate amount of value in the computing industry was created by geniuses who decided to just tell people how to do things instead of trying to capture the value of being the first person to figure out how to do those things.

This observation pre-dates the current wave of AI hype by a half century or so.

> driven by greed

I can only speak for myself.

For me it's exactly the opposite. If I want to explain how something works, I can just... do that. If I want to share an artifact demonstrating how to solve a particular type of problem, I can just... do that. If I want to mentor/teach, I can just... do that.

Doing those things within the confines of Academia Approved Institutions is exhausting and distracting.

To wit, and the actual point of this post: the term "Publishing Research" in this article doesn't mean "post it on a blog and share the source code". It means engaging in a very specific and peculiar and extremely political modality of communication.

And it really only makes sense to do that specific and peculiar and political thing you're at a stage in your professional/personal development where you need to play that particular prestige game. (Which there's nothing wrong with, but it is a deeply cargo culted version of the actual scientific process.)

Let me help rewrite your first paragraph:

* A disproportionate amount of value in the computing industry was created by g̶e̶n̶i̶u̶s̶e̶s̶ decently smart people who worked together to do things that seemed impossible and who decided to just tell people how to do things instead of trying to capture the value of being the first person to figure out how to do those things.*