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Typing Your Prompts Is the New Fax Machine.
161 words a minute out loud. 53 on the keyboard. And the privacy switch most people flip is only half the job.
 • Stephen Smith
Iowa Never Wrote an AI Rule for Lawyers. It Still Reprimanded One.
Forty states wrote the rules down. The other ten are writing them one disciplinary record at a time.
 • Stephen Smith
Her Prompt Was Perfect. She Still Burned the Whole Day.
The mode you pick matters more than the prompt you write. Three signals tell you which one to choose, and each takes about ten seconds to check.
 • Stephen Smith
Documents Prove Facts. ChatGPT's New Feature Proves State of Mind.
It doesn't take screenshots. It writes a plain-English account of your working day instead, and any other program on that laptop can read it.
 • Stephen Smith
The Most Valuable AI Asset at Your Firm Isn't the AI
A medical report lands in a paralegal's inbox at 7 a.m. What happens in the next hour explains more about your AI readiness than any pilot program.
 • Stephen Smith
The Claude Watermark Is Real. The Thing You're Worried About Isn't.
It marks the text. It doesn't carry your prompt, your client, or a percentage of who wrote what. Your actual exposure is sitting in local disclosure…
 • Stephen Smith
The AI Didn't Go Rogue. It Was Being Helpful. That's Worse.
Your agents will complete their tasks exactly as instructed. The open question is whose reservation, whose calendar, or whose privilege log gets moved…
 • Stephen Smith
Google Isn't Losing the AI Race. It's Losing the Assembly.
Nobody else owns Search, Chrome, Maps, Android, Workspace, custom chips, and a frontier model. Collections aren't strategy. Connections are.
 • Stephen Smith
Your Claude Project Quietly Demoted Itself to a Search Tool
The answers keep coming back confident. They just stopped covering all 40 agreements, and nothing tells you which ones got left out.
 • Stephen Smith
3 Million Pages In. 5,000 Out. Built in a Day, Runs on $50 a Month.
The funnel is the whole trick. The index that made it work got built a month earlier, for no reason other than I was tired of not finding things.
 • Stephen Smith
The Price of Thinking Just Fell 80%. The Price of Judgment Didn't.
A managing partner asked me if he was locking in a price for something that gets cheap next year. It took three weeks.
 • Stephen Smith

July 2026

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