> but we really need to think about how the next group of people are going to learn the skills and nuance to applying them

That's what school is for. For the last 150 years we've automated a bunch of things, and then we send people to school to learn how those automations work, so they can make better automations.

Maybe law school will have to be a year longer. Or maybe some forward thinking firms will have new associates check the work of the LLM to gain that experience.

> That's what school is for.

It's not.

We have advanced CNC mills and lathes, and apprentices still learn doing things manually to understand how the tools work, their failure modes, and more.

There are machines that mix drinks, but you still learn to bartend by doing it manually and making mistakes, not starting out with machines.

Same with writing. Same with software. Doing the "simple", automatable thing is how you learn how the system works.

School can't be the same. Plenty of people have tried, but being effective in the real world is different.

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.

In the future, I think AI lawyers will be arguing with AI lawyers for the most part.

Like how people use AI to write their resume and then the HR department uses AI to screen the resumes, the 2 AI's duke it out.

School is mostly designed to dump information on people's heads. To function in a business and be able to DO things effectively, you need experience.

Schools came up with internships (which originated in the apprenticeship system) because they could not provide this experience, so how do you expect people to gain the necessary knowledge just from schools if there are no more internships or junior roles?

Still, school isn't quite the same as learning skills through work experience, is it?

> That's what school is for. For the last 150 years we've automated a bunch of things, and then we send people to school to learn how those automations work, [...]

Mostly agreed here.

> so they can make better automations.

That's not true at all. Aspiring accountants learn how to use spreadsheets, instead of doing their sums by hand. But we don't expect them to make better versions of MS Excel or come up with LLMs that can do all of that for them.

> Maybe law school will have to be a year longer.

Law school is already 3 years long in the US (after 4 years of undergrad), and most agree the second two are a complete waste of time. Other jurisdictions are different, but the US market is by far the largest.

True, but have you seen the state of education in the year of our Ai-ssiah, 2026?