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by nlh 44 days ago
We're in this weird in-between phase of the tech world where projects like this can now be put together in a few hours/days, but the audience of us HN folk are still trained on the idea that this is the result of months or years of work.

We're going to have to re-train ourselves on what hard work looks like (and thus what should be upvoted here).

I don't know whether the project's creator (@willchen96?) is a lawyer, or if they work at a law firm that helped them shape this, or how much time and effort they put into this, or whether law firms even want or need a vibe-coded open source project for their legal AI stack, but we should be considering the totality of those things when looking at new projects these days.

There's a lot of red flags here.

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Your comment (maybe accidentally) encodes the notion that hard work is the thing to appreciate.

I don’t actually care that much about the work having been hard - I care about the result being good.

Totally fair point!