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Why do I need a canvas to visualize the work that the agents are doing? I don't want to see their thought process, I just want the end product like how ChatGPT or Claude currently …

Why not just use AWS Secrets Manager?

What if you want to build a third party integration to connect to Claude Chat or Cowork? Those can't run arbitrary CLIs. The only way to integrate with them is via MCP. For good re…

Thank you!

The same arguments of this essay apply to LaTeX and Typst

>If lawyers would think that visuals are more important than semantics I never claimed that it was more important than semantics. But it is, nonetheless, essential.

Correct. Lawyers load their Word instances up with many add-ins specific to their practice. Microsoft Word add-ins are the entire product surface for many legal tech companies. It'…

Correct. Solely relying on the built in Word Compare tool results in a whole host of version control issues, however, which I outline in detail in my post "On Building Git for Lawy…

Diffing the XML is a complete nonstarter. I've spent years working with the OpenXML format and can assure you it is very complex even for a professional software engineer with 10 y…

>the commit atomicity and comprehensive history aren't supported by Word either, are they? That's just a function of maintaining 20 separate copies of the file with each set of cha…

I completely agree. On the Google Docs front — I wrote specifically about its viability as a Word successor in an earlier post, "Why Lawyers Will Never Use Google Docs". https://th…

Yes, exactly. A successor could theoretically replace Word, but first it needs to replicate all of its existing functionality. For a competitor to supplant Word, it would need to: …

HTML can represent a docx file in a web application but it can never replace docx. Docx files are a protocol for sharing documents between lawyers. I go into more detail on that in…

Version control + binary file support is of limited utility for lawyers. They need to see what's changed from version to version, including formatting changes. This is why we spent…