What's intelligence?
Watching large language models spew words at each other hasn't improved my understanding of them.
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Oct
What Top 10% Actually Means (For a Lawyer Who Codes)
177K monthly downloads. Top 10% of 700K packages. Zero revenue, one maintainer, weekend work. Here's what "success" actually means for open source maintainers—and what I'd tell anyone considering building their own tools.
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21
Oct
Why Prompt Engineering Felt Wrong (And What Skills Changed)
I sat in a standing-room-only prompt engineering workshop feeling anxious—not because I was behind, but because I don't use any of these frameworks. Turns out my instinct was right. That same month, the technology shifted from prompts to persistent agent skills
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18
Oct
Lawyers Got Prompt Engineering Wrong (And Why That Matters)
At TechLawFest 2025, Singapore lawyers packed a workshop on prompt engineering. Meanwhile, the technology shifted: agent skills became available. This isn't about better prompts—it's about who controls the decision-making logic. From 3-page prompts to reusable systems.
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10
Oct
Open Source, AI, and Why October Matters
This Hacktoberfest, I'm not contributing code—I'm maintaining my own. Two years after redlines went viral, I'm adapting it for AI agents. The lesson: tools that don't work with AI will fade. Open source needs to evolve with how people actually work.
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06
Oct
When AI Makes You Look Busy, Not Productive
A new term is making headlines: "workslop"—AI-generated work that looks polished but lacks substance. Research found 40% of workers encountered it last month, costing $186 per employee in cleanup time. For resource-constrained lawyers, you can't spend time fixing what's irretrievably broken.
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