Researcher vents: AI era hasn't fixed paper writing or peer review

Researcher Rex Douglass complains that AI hasn't changed peer review or paper writing: reviewers never check data or code yet raise endless boilerplate critiques, and competent reviewers are already using LLMs to review.

2026-10-23 ~ 2026-10-23 · 4 related posts

• 'The writing papers stage is the same': researcher quips AI still can't finish the job — RexDouglass · 2026-10-23
• Researcher blasts peer review: reviewers never check data or code, just ask for robustness checks — RexDouglass · 2026-10-23
• Researcher: competent peer reviewers are already using LLMs anyway — RexDouglass · 2026-10-23

1 near-duplicate retellings: RexDouglass