The 80/20 Principle

The 80/20 Principle

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.

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Ernie the Attorney
Aug 07, 2026
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Film cameras had a built-in constraint: every frame cost money. That cost forced you to think before you pressed the shutter.

Phone cameras removed that ceiling. Now you can take two hundred photos of the same sunset and sort them out later.

That shift explains something that’s been bugging me about AI writing, and I think it applies directly to how lawye…

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