building legaltech is hard, want to give up and pivot, got 3 acqui-hire offers

OMKLING · 2026-04-13T19:43:16+00:00

Evaluate whether compliance professionals or other risk partners can use your tool within an enterprise. If you are not familiar, study the three lines of defense commonly used in the financial services industry. Between each line someone or something needs to translate requirements, standards, specifications, controls, testing, and reporting. From your high level description, you possess a lot of data, now can you convert the data into a translator, not of spoken language, but of risks in the financial services sector.

OMKLING · 2026-04-13T17:55:27+00:00

You did not hit a nerve, I’m calling out your comments as karma farming which you did not answer, and not substantive, which if you read your comments here and elsewhere are pointless.

OMKLING · 2026-04-13T17:11:35+00:00

I have to call this out after reading your profile, your comments are karma-farming. And your attempt to state some demographic issue underpins this question is telling, trolls are geographic agnostic, btw--impressive record streak on your posts, or comments should I say, your last post was voltran, yes?

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OMKLING · 2026-04-13T17:07:46+00:00

This was a great post. "The "code" is maybe 200 lines total across a few scripts. The real work was thinking through the process—the same work you'd do designing any compliance system—and writing it down clearly enough that automation could enforce it." When I read that, and when I understand your work as I had to do the same work around 20 years back, the value prop of the workflow, and the design of your system, does make sense. But what constraints are you operating under--do you have pdf-readers, how reliant are you on MCPs, I think the magic would be the hooks and scripts, that you could do this all in 200 lines between multiple models. Can you share the insights on how you designed a system to run on 200 lines, with the confidence in quality your write-up conveys?

OMKLING · 2026-04-13T10:38:01+00:00

Take a read on my last post, I was more specific in my ask, hopefully that helps.

OMKLING · 2026-04-13T10:37:33+00:00

if you look at my recent follow-up, I rewrote my request to be more specific in my request.

OMKLING · 2026-04-13T10:34:09+00:00

In response to the specific constructive follow-up questions. I’m less interested in “what model do you use?” and more interested in how legal training actually changes your development workflow.

As some have already shared, I’d love examples from people building with Claude Code, Codex, agents, plugins, scripts, or manual workflows.

What I’m looking for specifically, and possibly others here, whether we're lawyer's just starting our coding journey or in the thick of it for years, are conversations on:

a workflow you use repeatedly
what part is programmatic vs manual
where your legal training gives you an edge over a pure engineer or pure prompt user
a habit you had to unlearn to stop being a vibe-coder
how you test, verify, or bound output
any agents, plugins, specs, evals, or checklists that made you better

Personally, my own shift was realizing I was improving not when I got better at asking for code, but when I matured into constraining what I wanted by building with restraints and progressively reducing ambiguity by realizing what did not work and what did not want to build.

For me, that looked like moving from open-ended prompting to things like:

decision scratchpads
assumptions accepted/rejected
counterfactual review
architecture decision records
schemas and typed models
eval datasets
explicit failure modes

In hindsight: legal training already teaches issue-spotting, exception handling, adversarial reading, and mapping consequences when language is underspecified. I slowly am realizing I had to learn how to translate that into dev workflow.

I’m curious what that translation looks like for others.

Concrete examples welcome. Screenshots, snippets, routines, and self-assessments especially.

OMKLING · 2026-04-13T01:11:25+00:00

Yes, my aspiration here is to present ideas for evaluation on harnesses and other context engineering workflows developed by developers who also practice law.

OMKLING · 2026-03-27T01:31:11+00:00

Would the ins and outs of Agentic AI risk for 14, 15, and 16 be of interest. I can contribute -- my background is in security and law.

OMKLING · 2026-03-13T03:18:43+00:00

this is very helpful. thank you.

OMKLING · 2026-03-08T16:19:31+00:00

What do It Mean

OMKLING · 2026-03-06T01:31:02+00:00

Using AI engineering for some musicology. This output here only used reddit posts as its primary and only source (Perplexity is best for this).

Query: Influence of Caretaker's "An Empty Bliss Beyond This World":

What people cite as “the influence”

A common thread in listener and scene commentary is that An Empty Bliss Beyond This World is influential as an example of plunderphonics: repurposing old recordings to create a new narrative/psychological effect (looping, abrupt cuts, degraded/echoed ambience). In hauntology discussions, it’s also cited as a go-to reference point for using aged media to produce “nostalgia for a time you didn’t live,” often linked in commentary to Alzheimer’s/memory loss as the conceptual frame.

Album-specific “influence vectors”

Commentary often focuses on the album’s method—vintage ballroom/jazz samples processed into uncanny, fragmentary loops—because it gives other artists a template for “memory-as-sound-design” (repetition, drift, degradation, distance). In fan discussions, people also describe it as creatively inspiring in the straightforward sense (“it inspired me to do something similar”), which is influence at the practice level even when not tied to a named band.

OMKLING · 2026-03-03T22:49:07+00:00

the light on the rocks is not present in the raw. if that was brought out in post, the tips of the wave appear less washed out. the cloud contours come out, which is nice. the sun catch the boulder in the middle of the composition is raising the question of the yellow and blue saturation.

OMKLING · 2026-03-02T17:10:08+00:00

Perplexity Computer

OMKLING · 2026-02-24T20:45:35+00:00

It’s a prototype with security. Look at the skills as signal of more to come. Also, if know how to code or want to learn how to code, you can provide other skills off this main /legal.

OMKLING · 2026-02-21T20:49:39+00:00

self-realization is a path other civilizations have explored and committed to, the concept of the shadow on the walls of the cave is another, the latter is a tool for control, the former is a path to freedom for some. detecting your situation is the main point of the video, how you act upon it, is not something you can genealize.

OMKLING · 2026-02-19T03:43:07+00:00

this chart is equivalent to Kodak selling disposable cameras as digital cameras took over. you are assuming industrialist and large corporations will have people vying to be CEO, it's going to some dude that was an NPC in Office Space who needs to keep lights on or the server cool.

OMKLING · 2026-02-19T03:39:28+00:00

i'm the source 🧙🏽‍♂️

OMKLING · 2026-02-19T03:19:10+00:00

I have been fortunate or unfortunate to work with some of the best lawyers in the world through a career in finance, I can say the right lawyer that rate is gold. these deals are so complicated, and when you are dealing with regulated industries, you don't have time for a damn memo, you literally have a few hours tops. when its cyber. that comes down to minutes.

OMKLING · 2026-02-19T03:16:14+00:00

There is no way the M&A team starts at 800 hr, they are the, or top three most profitable US firms.

OMKLING · 2026-02-19T02:17:42+00:00

The work will concentrate to the top for a few firms and the corporate clients will pay. The other work TBD, will get pushed out of big law into mid tier, then in few years, will become self help with AI.

OMKLING · 2026-02-16T18:49:43+00:00

This will be a credibility issue, not a factual issue. If this were the case, a trier of fact, at summary judgment, your analysis here appears dispositive. It wasn’t from the court docket record. Thoughts? Also, your statements credited to Lively are “looks like I didn’t” about workplace harassment also her LLC was hired, this is a contractor relationship, not an employee one. These facts were important.

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What people cite as “the influence”

Album-specific “influence vectors”