🚨 AAAI 2026 is here... and the chaos begins! 🚨

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Let's share any of your thoughts around

• Submissions ️
• Reviewer roulette
• Rebuttals ️
• Decisions (a.k.a. heartbreaks or celebrations)

Whether you’re sweating over rebuttals, raging at “Reviewer #2”, or just curious about the wild ride of AAAI paper decisions — let’s talk.

How’s your experience so far?
Any horror stories or surprising wins?
What do you wish AAAI would fix in the process?

No matter if you’re a first-time submitter or a battle-hardened veteran, share your thoughts — let’s make the peer review circus a little less lonely .

Drop your hot takes below ️

[cocktailfreedom]

lol a few days ago, AAAI just casually dropped the first-round “reviewer gift pack” and it was wild…
people opened their dashboard and saw 8 papers at once. hit refresh? suddenly 11. felt like a surprise loot box nobody wanted

then on the same day, the system started pulling them back, like “oops, jk.” now it seems to be 3 reviewers per paper… but yeah, still mostly reviewing direct competitors so not exactly a win. and if you only got 1 paper in round one, chances are you’ll be drafted again in round two. mental prep advised

the backdrop: 22k+ submissions this year. absolutely bonkers. the random assignment thing made a lot of us worried about another “Who is Adam” moment. the new reciprocal review rules might help a bit, but it still feels messy

funny part tho… some folks i know haven’t been assigned a single paper yet, while others are buried alive. truly RNG (Random Number Generator) reviewer roulette at its finest.

so yeah, any other reviewers got their “big pack” yanked overnight? would you rather deal with the madness of 8–11 papers, or this slow-burn redistribution? curious how y’all are coping.