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

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dabinat · 1790566087 · focus · HN ↗
My experience with lawyers is that if you need a legal document, they often have templates ready to go and will take 10 seconds to find & replace your company name into the document. I know this because they often don’t proofread it afterwards. They then charge you $1000 for that 10 seconds of work. Given that I have felt ripped off by many lawyers, I’m totally fine with that industry getting disrupted.
1. lurk2 · 1790570170 · focus · HN ↗
  > I know this because they often don’t proofread it afterwards.
  It’s hilarious to see people complaining about lawyers being overpaid and incompetent on a forum dedicated to an industry that was completely unregulated up until about a month ago. A lawyer can be disbarred from his profession for making these kinds of mistakes; can you?
  1. siva7 · 1790571219 · focus · HN ↗
    did i miss something? are developers regulated since last month?
    baq · 1790574310 · focus · HN ↗
    No, they are irrelevant.
    The people and their experience is still very valuable, but having been in the business since early 2000s the job shouldn’t be called ‘software developer’ anymore. Even ‘software engineer’ is somewhat inadequate given what the end product is vs what is actually being engineered by humans. ‘Software factory process automation engineer’ maybe counts?

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