Tag: opinion
All the articles with the tag "opinion".
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Nothing Grows Under the Big Tree: The Curse of Going First in AI
Founders are taught that going first is rewarded. In the AI era, the opposite is becoming true: early innovators do the market validation that platforms then absorb, often for free. By the time a big platform announces a feature, the pioneers who proved it works are already obsolete.
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The Three Fake Moats Vertical Legal AI Companies Are Defending
Vertical legal AI companies have built their pitch around three competitive moats: industry expertise, information asymmetry, and training data. After reading their materials like a due diligence report, I don't think any of these moats actually exist.
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The 70-Point Document Your Client Thinks Is 90
The most dangerous thing AI has done to legal work isn't producing bad documents. It's producing documents that are good enough to look great to someone who doesn't know what great looks like.
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Clients Don't Pay Lawyers for Answers. They Pay for Certainty.
AI can produce a legal analysis in twenty seconds. It cannot produce the feeling of having been correctly held through an uncertain moment by someone who actually knows what they're doing. That feeling is what clients are buying.