Amit Sharma

@VCShekhar Yes, with the dispatch thing, it’s as good as claw

Dang, Claude cowork is a super power and haven't even started setting up the .md files and folder structure properly

@KayTheRunna It is normal. Posting about it is not

Marathon training has brainwashed me into believing that running a half marathon on a random Saturday with no crowd, medal, or finisher t shirt is normal.

@ZachAbramowitz @RickDelonisESQ Using AI to actually detect slop in judgments is a real use case imo.

Lawyers using AI is cool, judges using AI is shit gets real

By definition, a lawyer is an agent of the client/their CEO. They will further rely on another AI ‘Agent’ kinda doesn’t sit with me (maybe it’s a skill issue on my part). My pet peeve with AI progress is that folks haven’t been given enough time and experience canvas to absorb the copilot/assistant paradigm, and now they’re being exhorted to Agentify their work. Tasks where cost of failure is low, will absolutely be agentified, not sure about drafting / negotiations of a material contract.

Autonomous contracting by agents will be a shit show. More work and AI slop for real lawyers and lawyer-controlled Legaltech to pick up.

Love this article. Evals themselves get Goodhart'ed. And, in some domains (say legal), the feedback on what's good arrives much later (or in a convuluted manner or never). Typical workarounds are assembling a team of human experts to evaluate the subjective response or some LLM judge type of model comparing it to aggregate data. Both introduce noise, and may not drive the systems in right direction always.

@rohanpaul_ai @JayaGup10 Dumb take.

Replit CEO Amjad Masad: "A lot of the vices that older generations think are vices, might actually become advantages." Being terminally online and having ADHD may be AI-era strengths, because AI benefits people who can try a lot of things, super fast.

@scottastevenson Got it. On the 'better' part, the (company level) feedback will usually be very delayed ('Did that liability cap negotiation help us over last 2 years?'). Assuming this is a utility fn comparing to some aggregate market data.

@capreal26 Follow company playbook, or do better

It’s inevitable that contracts will be negotiated by agents within the next decade. Business will speed up so much that humans won’t be able to keep up with day-to-day contracts between companies. Lawyers will set the policies and audit— agents will be trusted to do the rest. This sounds irresponsible, until you realize what the error rate is for human contract managers—fairly high. I believe agents will be a safer way to negotiate rudimentary agreements within the decade, just like self-driving is now safer than human driving. This chart will exist for basic business contracts:

@mercebent VC tweets power law - 80% of tweets from VCs are about power law.

Wow. only ecosystem with worse concentration of capital is VC firms 🙃

@Vipintiwari952 Love this story. Watching the Kolkata test live is one of my fondest memories.

Former Indian cricketer V. Raju claimed that it was his contribution behind VVS Laxman’s historic 281-run innings : He said : “I still remember the evening after Australia enforced the follow-on. National selector Madan Lal asked us to keep fighting. Laxman then said something that surprised me. He said, “We might win this.” At that stage it felt hard to imagine, but he had the belief.” Laxman’s innings was extraordinary. He was coming down the track to Shane Warne and hitting him even against the spin. That confidence came from years of playing domestic cricket on turning tracks in Hyderabad. For me, the Kolkata Test was special because it turned out to be my last game. Getting the wicket of Mark Waugh made it even more memorable. It was the perfect farewell. More importantly, that Test transformed Indian cricket. It gave the team belief that we could fight back from any situation and win. There’s another small personal memory: the bat Laxman used to score that famous 281 was actually mine. So, in a small way, that was my contribution to that historic knock.” (Beyond the boundaries)

@tomfgoodwin Exactly. That’s why the optimization bros come across as shallow, mostly.

When are tech folk going to get that people like wasting time, it's life. They don't optimize for efficiency, they try to get by, they watch dumb stuff, they enjoy shopping. Inefficiency is another work for living and life. Your m mean and median job isn't a software engineer in Menlo Park, it's Ashley in accounts in a not for profit in Columbus, it's Jesse , the office manager for a tool rental business in Tallahassee, they are more likely to use a Fax machine than Slack. They quite like meetings because they like chatting, they'll use AI to make a better invite to their baby shower, not agentify their job. These people, nor their bosses boss, aren't in a rush to build software as a side hustle, they are keen to use AI to check if their vet is overcharging them. They'd like AI to check spelling on the email to the school governor. They don't want agentic commerce, they want AI to be in the background and make living a little less stressful

Did someone say AI will make lawyer's business go away?

@rexsalisbury There's one more meta - tweeting about downloading all the new things that will allow you to automate all the work you need to do.

AI is happening so fast, I spend all my time on meta meta work. Ex how I spend time: - 2 months ago: doing working - 1 month ago: automating work - today: downloading all the new things that allow me to automate work faster. ...so meta meta work. Am I actually getting work done? hard to say, but it's pretty fun!

@Britannica Et quatre ?

No number before 1,000 contains the letter A.

@arthur_spirling Pls use manus to delete such tweets before they're posted.

My AI workflow: Gemini works on my codebase in the background and sends my phone an update text every 8 seconds. Codex reads those texts and sends me a single summary email once a day. Finally, Claude automatically deletes that email before I read it. Follow me for more tips.

@kawal279 so you're saying that vigilantes, who have nothing to lose, should do such a thing. Dangerous!

Possible but Insurance companies don't have loss data for underwriting such a practice and may deny coverage or ask for a lot. Eventually, premiums may be lower (as you said), but unless we see that happening, it'll be a bit of a stumbling block I guess, coz clients need proof of insurance.

Very complicated question. On one hand, yes - size does matter. But on the other hand, assuming that AI is highly accurate and properly supervised, I could actually see malpractice insurance premiums being significantly lower for Bob. Less room for human error, plus Bob is one of the top experts in his field and (at least arguably) less likely to be catastrophically wrong about something than the average partner at Cravath. May not matter much in the end anyway if Bob's firm is able to charge higher margins for the work than BigLaw would.

@BBTheorist Bravo! We need AI platforms in India to help wrestle with these unethical companies. Common man should be able to bury them under mountains of documentation, as they do, and threaten litigation if valid claims are not paid. Who's building this? I'd love to invest.

Recently, a popular yet notorious #HealthInsurance company tried to deny my wife’s insurance claim claiming she hasn’t submitted all her documents in original. They closed the claim on this ground in 2 months without informing us. The amount wasn’t too significant (around Rs. 1.10 lakhs) but I decided to take legal route to teach them a lesson. Last week I talked to one of their employees to make them understand what they would be facing. Initially he said they never received the documents but I gave him the speed post tracking details and delivery report, and asked him to check the company’s email on which the same was sent as soon as the documents were received. I told him that I have every single phone call with the company recorded and every single email communication documented. Any denial would lead to trial of every single employee of the insurance company my wife or I have ever interacted with. I clearly told him that being a lawyer I have an agency and bigger appetite for litigation than his company and that I would not just go after the company but also the employees which would adversely affect their livelihood. The next morning one of the employees again called me up and said that they have recovered the documents which was somehow misplaced by their office and that the claim is now under process. To my surprise, the amount was credited within 5 days.

@bhaumikgowande Only proper city in India

Cars travelling at 60-80 kmph in free flow while the Delhi Metro DMRC Airport a Express travels at 120 kmph. This is how public transport has won in Delhi.