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This is a real issue in legal as well. Now that large language models are creeping into big law and in-house environments, there's a concern that junior associa
by piker 8mo ago
This is a real issue in legal as well. Now that large language models are creeping into big law and in-house environments, there's a concern that junior associates aren't getting the opportunity to take a step back and learn to consider the broader context.
When your bidding can be drafted and a path laid in microseconds, it's super easy to start off in the absolutely wrong direction. But you don't know you're headed the wrong way unless you've learned it. Unlike software where bugs like this are sometimes surfaced immediately via the compiler or interacting with the product, legal bugs are latent and only reveal themselves after the potentially massive damage is done[1].
These things are a massive unlock for well-trained senior lawyers who can spot the issue upfront. On the other hand, they amplify juniors' ability to introduce errors at the same time they deprive them of necessary understanding. Having a judge rule on a bad contract idea "at runtime" is a catastrophic failure mode.
[1] As an example of this, consider how Gary Kildall arguably flubbed the deal of a century when he allowed the DRI team to attempt to negotiate the IBM form non-disclosure agreement: https://tritium.legal/blog/redline https://tritium.legal/blog/redline
- netsharc 8mo ago> https://tritium.legal/blog/redline https://tritium.legal/blog/redline Halfway through this blogpost, I realized it's written for idiots used to the Buzzfeed/Twitter-style of "One sentence per paragraph". Fucking infuriating.
- piker 8mo agoNot at all! That is my drafting method creeping through. I try to write each sentence as a separate paragraph first to make sure I don’t get too wed to a paragraph and can delete/move liberally. Then I try to go and merge the paragraphs that have cohesion. Seems like I didn’t do a great job here. Sorry it distracted you, but honestly thanks for giving it a chance and the feedback. Will do a better job on the next one.
- latexr 8mo agoInstead of one paragraph per sentence, try one sentence per line. https://sive.rs/1s https://sive.rs/1s
- vr46 8mo agoI liked it, one idea to a sentence is one of the best pieces of writing advice one can follow. The article reads like a script, it's not bad at all.
- netsharc 8mo agoToday in how to write like a YouTuber...