Douwe Kiela: papers are just timestamped formats — the real projects live elsewhere
lateinteraction · x · 2026-09-20
Douwe Kiela (lateinteraction, Contextual AI) says he'll continue writing and submitting papers as before, but makes no mistake: a paper is nothing but one of several useful timestamped formats for sharing your actual projects, which by and large "live" elsewhere. The take reflects a growing view among frontier practitioners that papers are a dissemination medium, not the core artifact of AI research.
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