Tip-of-the-spear work from systems architects and builders we respect — and why it matters downstream for law firms.
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Articles and frameworks from people doing real work in AI and systems.
The first serious protocol-level answer to AI governance — not legal-specific, directly applicable to it. For law firms: agents that act only within explicit mandates, ephemeral sessions with no persistent state (no privilege waiver risk), and receipts that log what happened without recording what was said.
Zero new primitives. Built on existing web standards — W3C DIDs, Verifiable Credentials, WebAuthn, SD-JWT, OHTTP. Five cryptographic constraints — deny by default, bounded delegation, ephemeral session IDs, minimal receipts, non-renewable mandates — enforced at the protocol layer, not the implementation layer.
Read → gatherdev.substack.comA practical look at how to configure AI agents into useful workflows — the gap between "the model can do this" and "the system reliably does this" is where most implementations fail.
For law firms, that gap isn't a performance problem — it's a professional responsibility one.
Read → baursoftware.comOn the economics of how AI is changing software delivery and what that means for anyone building or buying systems.
The per-seat, per-query pricing law firms are being sold right now is a transitional moment, not a permanent structure. Worth understanding before signing a multi-year contract.
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