Robin Chesterman

@rakyll @wjsimmonds We need the good people to stay!

@wjsimmonds Yup, time to take a break and come back in 5 years 😉

Lately I’ve been feeling depressed because decades of our hard work is completely gone like it never existed. I heard from others that they also find it very hard to dial into the new norm of low quality software engineering.

@jaffathecake First one for me. Feels like the most useful thing about selectedoption is the rich (but often different) presentation of all information in an option. Keeping it in sync is fraught with danger, hard to reason about & hard to control. Manual update is relatively simple.

I'm excited that we're finally getting a customisable <select> on the web. However, there's one detail of it I'm really not sure about, and I'd like to hear your thoughts. Have your say before it's too late 😀 jakearchibald.com/2024/how-shoul…

@LevinsLaw @gifford_head @ShipBrief @Joanna__Hardy I think jury verdicts must have a finality that they would not be able to have if they had to give their reasons. And from a practical point, I don’t know what an output that captures the nuance and diversity of the deliberations of 12 separate people could even look like.

@gifford_head @ShipBrief @Joanna__Hardy There's a much better chance of challenging a judge's findings on appeal because they have to give *reasons*. And that's the key — I'm open-minded about whether juries get more right than judges, but decisions without reasons are an affront to justice.

@Rich_Harris @joshm A brilliant concept indeed, but “winter soup recipes” crunched the content and built this - which is not recipes, but rather just the names of soup.

i can't help but be sceptical that this will work as well as shown, it's in my nature. and if everyone used the web this way, what incentives remain to actually create it? but damn, @joshm is a phenomenal communicator. this is a brilliant concept youtube.com/watch?v=WIeJF3…

@EJWalters @vlex @bobambrogi I too had the pleasure of having @EJWalters show me a quick demo. @bobambrogi nails the highlights in his post. Lawyers #pleaseread 🤯

@EJWalters @vlex @bobambrogi This is wild.

@jordan_law21 @bobambrogi Thanks, Jordan - can't wait for you to take it for a spin. I'm genuinely surprised at how good it is!

Our team at @vlex has been working for months on a generative AI tool to write memos, prepare arguments, compare the law across jurisdictions, and analyze documents - we're releasing the new Vincent AI in beta this morning, and @bobambrogi has a first look.

In one of my favorite demos, I was showing @mitchjackson the new @vlex #AI Research Assistant before our panel at #ClioCon. He asked a plain-language question in CA law that he had just tried. Vincent AI came back with the right answer - citing Mitch's case first! Neither one of us could believe it.

Thanks Jordan! We’re on an exciting journey @vlex

vLex Launches Major Upgrade to Vincent AI, Creating the World’s Most Comprehensive AI Legal Research Assistant. The artificial intelligence tool completes first-draft research memos, builds arguments, summarizes documents and more, with global coverage: hubs.li/Q025C41v0

"...as close as I have seen in delivering on the promise of generative AI for legal research." Thanks Bob! Delighted and proud to be at this point - Vincent AI is the most exciting thing I've ever worked on and will be truly transformational for legal research.

vLex (Fastcase) Unveils Beta Version Of Its Global, Multi-Language Generative AI Legal Research Tool. @vlex @fastcase lawnext.com/2023/10/vlex-f…

@jaffathecake It's full of great advice, but the site itself is a transition nightmare, particularly on mobile. Wild scrolling, unresponsive nav, and more jank than I think I've ever seen on one website. Making things nice on the web is hard :(

If you're adding view transitions to your sites, the Material Design guides have some great examples, and some patterns to avoid. I don't think their word is law, but there are a lot of good ideas here. m3.material.io/styles/motion/…

Big AI development today for Docket Alarm that’s going to save lawyers *huge* amounts of time.

@GaryMarcus I’m reading your book and thought of you with this

Interesting reality check. #GPT4 can pass the bar exam in the 90th percentile, but it can't do my 8-year-old's homework.

@ylecun worse than cogs. I’d be interested in your thoughts on why it fails so badly at this.

I'm being facetious. GPT is incredible, and I use it every day to help me with problems far harder than this. The point is you just don't know when it's going to fall on its arse.

Absolute nonsense.