This is fascinating.

[paco@infosec.exchange]

RE: https://code4lib.social/@acdha/116479098133731308

This is fascinating. Think about phrases in there “survive a motion to dismiss” and finding the right jurisdiction and so on.

On the one hand, the legal profession is now dealing with what the open source community has been contending with. Lots of people who had been filtered out by process and skill requirements are no longer kept out.

On the other hand, perhaps I am less sympathetic to the law profession because I’m not in it. But it seems like access to justice and our rights was being denied by Byzantine process and (perhaps?) unnecessary complexity. Now they navigate it correctly. (Whether they have merit is something else)

I think lots of lay people feel like “I should sue that person” for whatever reason. And paying a lawyer to file an unlikely suit and paying for drafting of frivolous motions and stuff kept these from clogging up the system. But people deserve “their day in court” and this helps give it to them.

Decades of chronically underfunding everything that is just and fair in the world makes this untenable. It’s not like the system worked before. So the inadequate courts were nowhere near what they needed to be, and now they’re even less adequate.

A person using an LLM to write software for themselves has a fool for a client. Just like the person who represents themselves in court.