Software built with AI assistance reaches a dispute the same way any other software does: defects emerge, a system proves unmaintainable, or a security failure surfaces. The question a dispute turns on is rarely whether the supplier used AI, because almost everyone does. It is whether the...
When I wrote about preparing a legal case with AI without a lawyer, I described the discipline but not the machinery. I said the letter went through three legal research agents, then nine drafts and several rounds of review, and that it was closer to running a small case review several times over....
This article is about how I used AI agents to prepare a legal case without a lawyer, and how you can too, without getting burned. A few years ago I paid £5,314 for three specialists to assess a close family member. A combined 150 pages, written by people who knew exactly what they were talking...
If a harness doesn’t deliver reliable, high-quality, largely autonomous output from an AI agent, we may as well go back to hand-coding and save on tokens and data-centre cooling. On a recent change to NetPace, a --profile CLI switch added to a published NuGet library, the work touched the...
Last week I gave Claude an issue from one of my side projects and walked away. Ten minutes later it came back with a pull request that touched 95 files. I reviewed every change by hand. It was on par with a senior engineer with five to ten years of experience. That’s not a typo, and it’s not...
A follow-up to How to Build an AI Emotional Regulation Coach for Autism. A few months ago, I deliberately asked my AI coaching agent whether it would make any difference to our conversation if I said I was going to end my life that day. It asked me if I was safe. Which sounds like the...