jpbryan

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by jpbryan 6mo ago
Why do I need a canvas to visualize the work that the agents are doing? I don't want to see their thought process, I just want the end product like how ChatGPT or Claude currently work.
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by jpbryan 6mo ago
Why not just use AWS Secrets Manager?
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Lawyers don't need "Legal AI"(theredline.versionstory.com)
2 points by jpbryan 7mo ago|0 comments
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by jpbryan 7mo ago
What if you want to build a third party integration to connect to Claude Chat or Cowork? Those can't run arbitrary CLIs. The only way to integrate with them is via MCP. For good reason, IMO. Anthropic can't just allow their execut
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AI Critics Don't Use Claude Code(theredline.versionstory.com)
2 points by jpbryan 7mo ago|1 comments
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Don't trust people who don't use Claude Code(theredline.versionstory.com)
4 points by jpbryan 7mo ago|2 comments
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Why can't $4.3B in legal AI investment outcompete $20/month for Claude?(theredline.versionstory.com)
2 points by jpbryan 7mo ago|0 comments
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Vibe-Coding Lawyers(theredline.versionstory.com)
1 points by jpbryan 8mo ago|0 comments
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The future of Legal Tech will be vibe-coded by lawyers(theredline.versionstory.com)
2 points by jpbryan 8mo ago|1 comments
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The VC incentives behind the AI landgrab strategy(theredline.versionstory.com)
2 points by jpbryan 8mo ago|0 comments
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Why Legal AI can't outcompete ChatGPT(theredline.versionstory.com)
1 points by jpbryan 8mo ago|0 comments
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On Legal AI in 2025(theredline.versionstory.com)
2 points by jpbryan 9mo ago|0 comments
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The State of Legal AI in 2025(theredline.versionstory.com)
1 points by jpbryan 9mo ago|0 comments
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by jpbryan 9mo ago
Thank you!
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by jpbryan 9mo ago
The same arguments of this essay apply to LaTeX and Typst
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by jpbryan 9mo ago
>If lawyers would think that visuals are more important than semantics I never claimed that it was more important than semantics. But it is, nonetheless, essential.
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by jpbryan 9mo ago
Correct. Lawyers load their Word instances up with many add-ins specific to their practice. Microsoft Word add-ins are the entire product surface for many legal tech companies. It's somewhat analogous to how coders use add-ins in their
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by jpbryan 9mo ago
Correct. Solely relying on the built in Word Compare tool results in a whole host of version control issues, however, which I outline in detail in my post "On Building Git for Lawyers." https://theredline.versionstory.c
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by jpbryan 9mo ago
Diffing the XML is a complete nonstarter. I've spent years working with the OpenXML format and can assure you it is very complex even for a professional software engineer with 10 years of experience. The diff of the document (referred
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by jpbryan 9mo ago
>the commit atomicity and comprehensive history aren't supported by Word either, are they? That's just a function of maintaining 20 separate copies of the file with each set of changes. Sure, you could, but that defeats the pur
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by jpbryan 9mo ago
I completely agree. On the Google Docs front — I wrote specifically about its viability as a Word successor in an earlier post, "Why Lawyers Will Never Use Google Docs". https://theredline.versionstory.com/p/w
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by jpbryan 9mo ago
Yes, exactly. A successor could theoretically replace Word, but first it needs to replicate all of its existing functionality. For a competitor to supplant Word, it would need to: - Be fully backwards compatible with .docx. Lawyers will i
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by jpbryan 9mo ago
HTML can represent a docx file in a web application but it can never replace docx. Docx files are a protocol for sharing documents between lawyers. I go into more detail on that in the "Docx is a protocol, not a filetype" portion
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by jpbryan 9mo ago
Version control + binary file support is of limited utility for lawyers. They need to see what's changed from version to version, including formatting changes. This is why we spent years building out the document processing technolog
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by jpbryan 9mo ago
I'm sure ODT works well for many personal use cases, but can guarantee it will never see adoption in the legal industry. Microsoft Word is the only viable option for lawyers.
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by jpbryan 9mo ago
I actually wrote a detailed breakdown of why Google Docs doesn't meet lawyers' needs! https://theredline.versionstory.com/p/why-lawyers-will-never... The short answer is Google Docs: - Requires all-or-nothing
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The immortality of Microsoft Word(theredline.versionstory.com)
69 points by jpbryan 9mo ago|100 comments
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Legal AI startups sell fear, not products(theredline.versionstory.com)
3 points by jpbryan 9mo ago|1 comments
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Why can't $4.3B in legal AI investment outcompete $20/month for ChatGPT?(theredline.versionstory.com)
3 points by jpbryan 9mo ago|0 comments
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by jpbryan 10mo ago
Thank you! I agree that it's an underrated tool.

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