Just like AI will kill all the software developers...
Obviously AI will change the legal industry. But a lawyer will still have an advantage because they know what questions to ask and can provide the AI with the relevant context.
Recently I asked Claude if I should convert my LLC to an S Corp for tax savings, and it sang the praises of how much I’d save if I did this.
When asked my accoutant, he pointed out that since I live in NYC, the S corp would be taxed in such a way that would completely wipe out the tax advantage I’d get elsewhere, and I’d likely end up paying more if I did this.
Love the idea of preserving the simplicity of flat files for managing your content but dynamically loading them into a database to make sorting and filtering easier and more performant. I did something similar for my Laravel markdown blogging engine[0].
I've deployed a number of Laravel apps in both traditional and serverless architecture. I have to say I'm pretty excited about Laravel cloud. Not that deploying Laravel is hard, but for a full fledged app there's a number of moving parts that I'd rather not deal with.
Plus if you're building apps for clients handing off the whole hosting side of things sounds amazing.
I'm fairly excited too. It seems the target is "Vercel but for PHP" and the lack of a Vercel/Netlify-style deployment option has pretty consistently been used as an argument against using PHP/Laravel at my agency. I've already started seeing longtime Node/Typescript devs showing interest in Laravel and Laravel Cloud will likely only increase that.
My wife and I direct deposit the first 90% of our paychecks to a shared savings account. Our family's living expenses are transferred from there to a shared checking account on the first of each month.
The other 10% goes into our personal checking accounts to spend on whatever we want.
Obviously AI will change the legal industry. But a lawyer will still have an advantage because they know what questions to ask and can provide the AI with the relevant context.