Academic papers ship two-year-old ideas, already superseded by LLMs
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-18
Black notes the academic pipeline—from reading papers to publication—means new papers rest on two-year-old assumptions. Many traditional problems get solved by LLMs via a different route before the paper even appears.
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