People getting their rocks off and pretending that they're engaging in a selfless pursuit. Keeping pieces of animals they/their handler killed, to remind them of what a good conservationist they are.
Lauri is a recent teenager-turned-CEO himself... and that "intern" is basically responsible for building Lauri's entire codebase. The whole service his "company" offers is what that teen bodged together in a month.
It does seem bizarre and woefully inefficient to run this process on-the-fly locally.