The pyramid scaled legal judgment by diluting it. AI is the first anti-dilution clause the profession has ever had: full ratchet, judgment at scale, undiluted.
Most "AI law firms" are either optimized traditional firms or lawyer-coder clones. The full-stack AI law firm is a different architecture entirely — and it's built on four layers most firms aren't thinking about yet.
The Humanoid Robot Fallacy
How Legal Became a Tax on Execution
What Happens to Lawyers When Law Becomes Infrastructure
How AI Moved Legal's Margin from Billable Hours to Compute Infrastructure
The collapse isn’t technological. It’s identity.
AI Didn’t Take the Work. It Revealed the Workers
Why Alignment Trumps Expertise