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I fact-checked that iPhone theft warning going around
Nine settings that stop a phone thief — plus one claim that needed fixing.
 • Ernie the Attorney
Kara Swisher unintentionally helped unpack interesting hype regarding Harvey.ai
She’s great at catching hyperbolic tech claims. This time, she just read one on air.
 • Ernie the Attorney
The AI law firm’s best feature isn’t the AI
Crosby automated contract review about as hard as anyone has. Its own lawyers say that’s not what won clients over.
 • Ernie the Attorney
AI didn’t ruin your writing. It removed your reason to edit.
A lesson from photography explains what’s actually going wrong with your AI drafts.
 • Ernie the Attorney
Everyone I recommend on AI is optimistic. Except Cory Doctorow.
He punctures hype for a living — and he’s usually right about how things break.
 • Ernie the Attorney

July 2026

I’ve been wearing two AI recorders. Only one belongs near a client.
Fieldy and Plaud look like competitors. They’re doing different jobs, and for lawyers the difference isn’t about audio quality.
 • Ernie the Attorney
Walter Isaacson finally got scared about AI
On live TV he called an alleged AI “escape” the first thing that truly worried him. The argument that followed matters more than the story itself.
 • Ernie the Attorney
You won’t get replaced. You’ll get skipped.
The real AI risk is subtler than losing your job — and a book from 1988 saw it coming.
 • Ernie the Attorney
Your AI-Powered Browser Might Be the Biggest Resource Hog
A lawyer’s Comet browser was eating 12 GB of RAM. Here’s what I learned digging into why — and it applies no matter which browser you use.
 • Ernie the Attorney
The boring skill that decides how much AI can help you
The people getting the most out of AI aren’t smarter than you. They organized their files first.
 • Ernie the Attorney
Lawyers are quietly becoming builders
The man who leads Claude for Legal built his own tools first. You can too — and you don’t need to write code.
 • Ernie the Attorney
Buy Harvey, or build your own? A smarter way to decide.
A four-part way to think through any AI tool decision — buy it or build it — plus a two-minute tool to test your own.
 • Ernie the Attorney
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