AI Researcher Slams Peer Review for Forcing Boring, Generic Research
cloneofsimo · x · 2026-07-31
Developer @cloneofsimo criticized the fundamental flaws in current academic peer review systems. He argued that researchers are forced to convince reviewers of their wild ideas, which rarely works, pushing the community towards safe, boring, and generic topics that lack real contribution.
He specifically called out the excessive amount of academic effort wasted on meaningless post-training tweaks, prompting engineering, minor architecture adjustments, and optimizer variants.
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