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Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by const_cast on Thursday May 29, 2025 @08:14PM (#44131604)
Lawyers don't even use version control software a lot of the time. They burn hundreds of paralegal hours reconciling revisions, a task that could be made 100x faster and easier with Git.

There's no guarantee a technology will take off, even if it's really, really good. Because we don't decide if that tech takes off - the lawyers do. And they might not care, or they might decide billing more hours is better, actually.

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Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by dgfitz on Thursday May 29, 2025 @08:45PM (#44131729)
“First thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers”

History majors everywhere are weeping.

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Re:Human coders are still better than LLMs by heartbreak on Thursday May 29, 2025 @09:44PM (#44132024)
> billing more hours is better, actually

The guiding principle of biglaw.

Attorneys have the bar to protect them from technology they don’t want. They’ve done it many times before, and they’ll do it again. They are starting to entertain LLMs, but not in a way that would affect their billable hours.

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