Peter (golden age)

My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces): I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important foundational pieces of UI engineering (if not in implementation then certainly at least in concept): Fast, accurate and comprehensive userland text measurement algorithm in pure TypeScript, usable for laying out entire web pages without CSS, bypassing DOM measurements and reflow

Spellbook and Harvey are the Juicero of legal tech. For those who don't remember, Juicero was the $700 WiFi-connected juicer that squeezed proprietary juice bags. Then Bloomberg discovered you could just . . . squeeze the bags with your hands. $120M in venture funding, dead within months. That's what's happening in legal AI right now. Companies are raising hundreds of millions to build a fancy chrome press around Claude and GPT (adding dashboards, "legal-specific" wrappers, and enterprise pricing) when the underlying models are already better at legal work than anything these wrappers add. The wrappers don't make the juice taste better. They just make it more expensive.

you pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world