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Scott Chacon
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Scott Chacon
@chacon
CEO of @gitbutler, cofounder of @SCNE_io, previously cofounder of @github.
Berlin, Germany Katılım Aralık 2006
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Former German Chancellor Scholz:
We were an engineers’ country. Now we’re a lawyers’ country.
Other countries… build a national railway system in 20 years.
We cannot build a commuter line in 20 years.
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@ChrisEdwards357 @emil_priver just to be pedantic, a “pull” is a fetch and a merge. so pull is a superset - it implies a merge. also you might prefer to rebase, which pull can do but merge request would be inaccurate.
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@emil_priver I agree. Merge Request is a more accurate description of what is actually going on. Pull Request doesn't resonate as much. I'm not asking for a "pull", I am asking if I can "merge" my code. However, because of GitHub's popularity, "Pull Request" is more popular.
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I think merge requests is a better name then pull requests
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@kdaigle Even I don’t know what Earthsmoke is, but it sounds 🤘
Was that related to the grit in the cloud “smoke” service? But on Earth somehow?
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The big problem with everything legal I’ve ever done is MS Word and redlines. Legal needs a github - markdown, diffable, mergeable, etc.
I’m sure everything changes with AI, but if legal collaboration is still emailing fucking docx files around, I tell you thats not the answer.
Brad Smith@BradSmi
Today we’re introducing a new Legal Agent in @Microsoft Word, built to support the precision and rigor legal work demands. Every clause matters. Every redline tells a story. That’s why this agent was built to follow the structured workflows lawyers use while keeping them fully in control. Early in my career, I asked for a computer on my desk because I believed technology could change how lawyers work. It did. Today, I believe this next generation of tools will do the same, grounded in trust and responsible use.
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@DirkStruart Maybe, but I’ve been on the user side of these things and it sucks. And its still emailing word docs around. Office contracts, investment docs, custody orders, it doesn’t matter. No lawyer is sending a link to a github like tool. They are sending you a goddamn docx file.
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@chacon Most big firms have version control. To avoid self doxx, an earlier version going back some decades was iManage. Better things exist and are used today.
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@raphbaph Its more about git than github. If I’m emailed a document that changed the same document I just worked on, we’re both now in pain. There is no single source of truth or branching or diffing or merging in anything close to the same way in Word.
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@chacon I would argue that comments on Word are en par to anything Github has to offer.
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@nhasanli It's better, but lawyers hate using it for various reasons, I've found. Also, it's not ideal for seeing differences between various versions or suggesting and accepting changes. But yes, it's much better than emailing docx.
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This discourse is driving me crazy because is no one using Google Docs?
Scott Chacon@chacon
The big problem with everything legal I’ve ever done is MS Word and redlines. Legal needs a github - markdown, diffable, mergeable, etc. I’m sure everything changes with AI, but if legal collaboration is still emailing fucking docx files around, I tell you thats not the answer.
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@davidgomes @BornsteinMatt @a16z @gitbutler I asked Matt if he wanted some whiskey during but he was all like "it's only 10a..." 🙄
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@chacon @BornsteinMatt @a16z @gitbutler This is not Bits & Booze. For that reason, I'm not going to watch.
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lol, i did an interview with the amazing @BornsteinMatt of @a16z around git and the @gitbutler funding and a bunch of stuff, but I’m fascinated by this AI headshot of me in the title card.
I think I should use this for everything now, oder?
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@we4v3r It doesn’t make a difference if everyone in the process isnt using it. I converted like 7 drafts of a legal doc to markdown just so I could get the diffs. But if the opposing side or rest of the team isnt bought in, its almost useless.
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@chacon i use github for legal work, no need to reinvent the wheel
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@thdxr I can get CarPlay to connect to the correct phone in my goddamn *Audi* probably 12% of the time.
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@jdxcode My god, same. All my kids were C-sections but my last came out like this and I only didn’t panic because none of the staff were in emergency mode. It was probably the scariest minute of my life. I had no idea this was what they did in the other room before I heard the cries.
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My daughter looked like this when she was born. I was never so scared.
N𝕖𝕙𝕕𝕦𝕞@onlyCFrancisco
Baby back to life, no panic no rush, a professional who is aware of his duties. Remarkable
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@chacon @github The lack of accountability and personal responsibility these days is astonishing.
Postmortem tl;dr should be: We fucked up. Here’s what we found. Here’s what we’re going to do. If you want to trust us to do it the right way going forward, continue to trust us with your business.
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Here is a pretty similar story where @github lost data, over 16 years ago, long before agents: github.blog/news-insights/…
It's interesting that we never blamed our tools or our database provider.
If you're concerned about this happening to you, read our 16 year old post instead of this one, it's a much more thoughtful post mortem on a problem that happens with or without agentic tooling.
JER@lifeof_jer
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You never win against German paperwork. You only survive long enough to also become the villain.
Lukas Hermann@_lhermann
I added a German Law tool to my home-brew OpenClaw alternative. Now it can look up any regulation and help me win against German paperwork ⚔️
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