Lawyer on AI drafting: it ignores custom skills; rigid docgen templates beat general legal AI

lex_node · x · 2026-10-21

Developer-lawyer lexnode vents about AI for legal documents: nondeterminism is the last thing you want in contracts, and models violate even custom /legal-docx skills that ban descriptive fluff and doubled numerals—a screenshot shows the model admitting the violations. His takeaway: give him a rigid docgen template and an AI that can only fill in variables, over generalized legal AI, any day.

Related event: Lawyer Slams AI Legal Drafting for Ignoring Constraints, Prefers Templates(2 posts)→

Original post →

More from coding & agent

coding & agent channel →