Yeah this could be interesting. A lot of the spotlight has been on “law firm stuff” like demand letters and writing contracts…

But imagine if a dev team didn’t have to go engineer -> product manager -> legal team to get a question answered on local data retention requirements. You could ship that much faster.

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ares623 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Would you take responsibility for missing details about local data retention requirements?

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zuzululu 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

honestly if you just avoid EU and China

you can get away with anything

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jedberg 6 hours ago | parent [-]

California too.

	▲	applfanboysbgon 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And with those three places listed you've ruled out literally 40% of the world economy. Great, you can ship your product in bumfuck Nebraska.

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Esophagus4 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes.

If the only purpose of asking a lawyer is transferring risk (aka cover your ass) while getting the same advice as an LLM, that’s slowing down delivery for purely bureaucratic reasons.

I’ve seen that mentality at big companies where everyone is scared to stick their neck out and be accountable for a decision. And nothing gets done. Drives me crazy.

But the people who move up are the people who take ownership and get shit done (and are right a lot).

(BTW, I have been at companies that were sued by regulators. They never really punish the individual(s) who were in the room when the decision is made. So your worry is kind of misplaced.)