Comment by yread
13 days ago
Nevermind coding where is the llm for legal stuff? Why are all these programmers working on automating their job away instead of those bloodsucking lawyers who charge hundreds of eur per h.
13 days ago
Nevermind coding where is the llm for legal stuff? Why are all these programmers working on automating their job away instead of those bloodsucking lawyers who charge hundreds of eur per h.
They are, you probably just aren't hearing about it. There's been loads of cases over the past few years where lawyers use AI to automate their legal research, then get admonished by the judge because their court filings contain fake quotes or reference court cases that don't even exist. A few examples: https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2025/09/chatgpt-la... https://natlawreview.com/article/judge-issues-public-admonit... https://websitedc.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/Mezu_v._Mezu_US...
It’s happening as fast for them. I literally sit next to our general counsel all day at the office. We work together continually. I show him things happening in engineering, and each time he shows me the analogous things happening in legal.
This affects everyone.
Domain knowledge and gatekeeping. We don't know what is required in their role fully, but we do know what is required in ours. We also know that we are the target of potentially trillions in capital to disrupt our job and that the best and brightest are being paid well just to disrupt "coding". A perfect storm of factors that make this faster than other professions.
It also doesn't help that some people in this role believe that the SWE career is a sinking ship which creates an incentive to climb over others and profit before it tanks (i.e. build AI tools, automate it and profit). This is the typical "It isn't AI, but the person who automates your job using AI that replaces you".
There are many. My friend (a lawyer and a programmer) wrote one from scratch in the basement. This would have been a 4 person startup before.