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In 2026 I submitted the same tool-learning project to two ACL ARR cycles — March, then May. Reviews arrive about two months after submission, so the rebuttal work for the May cycle landed in July. ...

I recently joined a project that needed quite a few technical diagrams. I did not want to build everything from scratch in PowerPoint, so I looked for a faster AI-assisted path. After some trial a...