Keller Jordan, a research engineer at OpenAI, posted that most big lab people now read almost zero papers and see ICLR, ICML, and NeurIPS as mainly full of overclaims and fraud, with occasional strong work. The statement prompted replies from academics and engineers including Jason Lee, Ravid Shwartz Ziv, Bharath Ramsundar, Dimitris Papailiopoulos, and area chairs who noted broken incentives, the value of ideas over numbers, and sadness over rising issues in the publication system. One reply suggested the trend might eventually reduce resume-driven work in academia.