Reflections

RAG didn't die — it got rebranded as "context engineering." Kinda...

2026 isn't about new AI capabilities — it's about stabilizing the ones we already have. For product counsel, governance built on shifting tools is governance built on sand.

The authors suggest treating AI agents as "legal actors" — entities that bear duties — without granting them legal personhood.

I rebuilt the project from scratch to understand what it actually measures, where it's useful, and where it breaks down.

AI and platform engineering are converging. For governance teams, that means the platform — not the policy doc — is where your AI guardrails actually live. The architecture matters.

Agentic AI shifts software delivery from applications to automated workflows. The business process and the code become the same thing — which means governance needs to shift too.

Legal AI vendors should publish what they refuse to build, not just what they ship. Architectural constraints aren't limitations — they're competitive differentiators. The first privilege breach will prove who got this right.

You wouldn't tell a first-year associate "do law" and expect good results. So why are attorneys doing exactly that with AI agents? Dan…