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As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'

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thayne · 1790571457 · focus · HN ↗
I think that question is very similar to why, if AI is making software developers so much more productive, those developers are not getting paid substantially more, or having to work fewer hours.
1. throwyawayyyy · 1790571742 · focus · HN ↗
  Subscriptions do seem to continue to go _up_, too. The proof of the productivity pudding is lower prices, which means the proof of all this AI hype is not so much Millennium Prizes being solved than subscriptions actually getting cheaper. If AI is already having a huge effect, inflation should be going down... if AI will have the effects OpenAI et al are currently selling, prices should plumet. I mean, I'm waiting...

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