Anyone deploying capital leverage to legal AI right now will look like a genius.
The more capital, the more genius.
But the scores won’t be clear until someone falls over their skis.
Spellbook is Canada’s third fastest growing company!
Incredibly proud of our team.
The @globeandmail reviewed financial data from hundreds of companies across the country: theglobeandmail.com/business…
Astra is torturing a Postgres database in the dev account to give up why it caused a slight outage yesterday
Can hear its cries all the way from ca-central-1
Codex is going to win the harness wars and it's just because installing the Datadog plugin is 1 click whereas in Claude it makes you want to punch someone in the face
To avoid PRs ballooning I've been giving agents line budgets
"If you can't get this PR to 200 lines added, you haven't thought through it enough"
Works surprisingly well
AI is insanely good at getting working code written but by god when you read this stuff you find so much garbage.
I don't see how any company that isn't maintaining some level of engineering vigilance isn't going to start to fall over 6-12 months into this software factory era.
In another world, Cursor didn’t become a Vibecoding tool and instead doubled down on helping devs understand code, citing sources, inventing new ways to suggest code not scaffold it
Much like how a lawyer uses AI today
My prediction is models will continue to shrink and laptops will get faster, in 2031 you’ll be able to run a Fable-level intelligence on your M10 Macbook
Also Gemini will have finally caught up to Sonnet 3.5
new post: the senior engineer death spiral
sunilpai.dev/posts/the-senio…
a friend just started a big job and asked for some advice. so I braindumped a monologue about a super common failure mode I see with engineers and posted it here, hope it helps whoever it can.
I used a NoSQL DB for the first time at a legit fast growing startup and learned very few problems have been solved by SQL alone
Just google “denormalization” and “embedding” pick whatever DB is easier for you to use
"we'll use a NoSQL database so we don't have to worry about schema migrations."
- someone who is about to spend the next two years reinventing relational joins in application-level javascript.
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