Lessons from a Law Firm Assembly Line: Why We Need Coherent AI Policy
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Summary
A software engineer reflects on their early career at a law firm during the housing bubble, where paralegals worked in a Taylorist assembly-line system processing foreclosure and bankruptcy cases. The article uses this experience as a lens to discuss the need for coherent AI policy, drawing parallels between industrial-era workflow optimization and modern AI deployment in knowledge work.
Key quotes
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The work was broken down into finely sliced tasks.
It was an assembly line for court filings; Taylorism brought to legal work.
At the peak, we were doing over 100K of each a year.
One of her jobs was to streamline process.
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