I feel like ultimately the journal / conference system of "submit pdf and never be able to update it" doesn't make sense in 2026.
- In a lot of fields, the "deliverable" could just be a git repo.
- Results could / should be more reasonable to update as possible issues arise.
- Peer review is pretty busted in a lot of fields, so a humongous number of papers get through that have pretty glaring issues.
The combination of being incentivized to spew out nonsense papers + academic publishing institutions liking to get more papers to sell to libraries + government funding being partly chosen by academics who are also part of the problem.
- In a lot of fields, the "deliverable" could just be a git repo. - Results could / should be more reasonable to update as possible issues arise. - Peer review is pretty busted in a lot of fields, so a humongous number of papers get through that have pretty glaring issues.
The combination of being incentivized to spew out nonsense papers + academic publishing institutions liking to get more papers to sell to libraries + government funding being partly chosen by academics who are also part of the problem.