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The 7th point which is unfortunately yet another lawyer analogy is chatgpt for software development is kind of like a magic "nolo publishing" where you can ask for any very short programming textbook and chatgpt will push it out.

However, the problem with being your own lawyer (or software developer) is the AI will never exceed its previous accomplishment but your goals and desires and requirements certainly will. So its a rising tide lifting all the boats situation. The game will be upped; you're not getting ahead by using AI you're just not going out of business, and the jobs are going to be even harder and higher paying. The cousin of this problem is if you have no idea what you're doing and randomly file legal papers in a best effort sense, just blindly trusting a liability-free book that may be out of date already, you'll eventually paint yourself into a corner if you try to set up your own LLC, c-corp, trust, will, etc, and as per above the AI was already operating at its limit so it won't be able to help and you're past your limit which is why you used the AI in the first place so you won't be able to help yourself or sometimes even understand the problem. Which is why human lawyers still practice...

In summary point 7 is I expect a lot of money will be made by humans cleaning up after AI "accidents". The purpose of the tech to "do stuff" beyond your skill level, which always turns into a disaster sooner or later.

A pretty good analogy from the pre vs post internet era is being able to blindly cut and paste code, perhaps an algo or an API, doesn't mean you can actually apply it correctly, use it, understand it, or troubleshoot it. And so it will be with AI, its just "nicer looking" code to cut and paste. But everyone who's ever self taught themselves an algo or an API knows they didn't really know anything when they cut and paste, the real learning came after.




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