If ChatGPT / LLMs are about producing plausible performative text that is deliberately just like everyone else, then ESG reporting seems like a no brainer application. Pun intended.

Imagine if LLMs disrupted the traditional practice of law the way blockchains have disrupted the traditional practice of banking…

Seeing an AI compose an email and asking which executives will be replaced is like seeing an internal combustion engine and planning to replace buggy drivers. Think of how many horses could be harnessed with that power to pull the reins!

Internal KM app idea: partners have to swipe left or swipe right on a selection of clauses before the LLM will write their allocated ‘marketing’ blog post. HotOrNot’n’Blawg.

In compliance with the zeitgeist, I am prepared to certify that not only do my #legaltech #hottakes not contain any AI output, they don’t contain any natural intelligence output either.

SharePoint- Where Information Goes to Hide

Which #contractautomation / #documentassembly / #autodrafting solution has the best version control and CI/CD story? #legalops

“Contact us to arrange a Demo!” Fill in vanilla form (industry sector, number of employees). Crickets. At least send a “Your message is unimportant to us; we probably won’t contact you” reply.

“Instead of having to wait two weeks for a modified template, users can have it in one or two days.” Punch cards or front panel switches?

Def going to read more books … once I finish scrolling through andrew arruda’s extracts

I thought adding reactions to emails was the dumbest thing Outlook was going to do. Then they added digest emails of reactions. Who uses email like this? #TwoMicrosoftsTheory

The Microsoft Copilot Scenarios for Legal are so low-effort, content-free and mistake-ridden I can only assume they were written by humans.

Microsoft’s investment in AI paying off with levels of confusing product renaming previously thought unattainable.

Plot twist: decades of MS Office UX change for its own sake, hiding everything behind mouse clicks, etc makes it impossible for AI to drive. They were filling their own moat.

Perhaps the new AI redlining apps will help classify edits: this is important to my client; I didn’t notice this was covered elsewhere; my personal style preference is different; pasted from another doc but didn’t bother changing defined terms; tldr; …

What happens when you can generate an on-demand app for every deal? Not this _type_ of deal, but _this_ deal with _this_ counterparty _this_ time. What if you don’t and your counterparty does?

Frontier model plateau confirmed. While we wait for the next s-curve, it’s the Time of Tools. Official Ms Word MCP Server when?

How is it that the SOTA in agentic manipulation of Microsoft Word documents is based on python, typescript and pandoc? Microsoft’s greatest enemies really are internal…