Lawrence Krubner | Ai in LegalTech

Legal tech is still using keyword search. That is a massive waste of what AI can actually do. In this episode of CTO Confidential, Mike Rispoli sits down with Lawrence Krubner, CTO of Scorealytics, to dig into the frontier problems that AI is now making possible to solve. Lawrence has been building on the web since 2002, and his perspective on how each generation dismisses the next is eye-opening. We talk about why minimalism matters when AI removes the need for it, how antagonistic agents from different LLMs can verify information with high confidence, and why open-source models are often better than frontier models when you have the right architecture. Lawrence shares how legal tech is wasting AI by treating it as a fancy search tool instead of using it to extract nuanced meaning from unstructured text. This is a conversation about managing AI-generated code, the importance of forward deployed engineers, and the languages that were designed for the problems AI is now solving. What we cover: Origin story from early web days to CTO at Scorealytics Every generation of programmers dismisses the next AI as the newest wave of simplification Ruby on Rails and frameworks that play well with AI Managing what to review in auto-generated code Strategic code review and decision points Junior engineers and training in the AI era Scorealytics and legal tech innovation ──────────────────────────────── LISTEN ON ALL PLATFORMS Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/1V4Sjml... Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... iHeart Radio https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-st... YouTube    / @strictlyfromnowherepodcast   SUPPORT THE SHOW Patreon   / strictlyfromnowhere   CONNECT WITH US LinkedIn   / strictly-from-nowhere   Website https://strictlyfromnowhere.com ──────────────────────────────── FOLLOW JUSTIN ABRAMS | @cuzzinjustin LinkedIn   / cuzzinjustin   Instagram   / cuzzinjustin   X https://x.com/cuzzinjustin TikTok   / cuzzinjustin   Facebook   / cuzzinjustin24   Website https://www.cuzzinjustin.com ──────────────────────────────── FOLLOW MIKE RISPOLI | @mike_rispoli_cto LinkedIn   / michael-rispoli-cto   Instagram   / mike_rispoli_cto   X https://x.com/michael_rispoli TikTok   / mike_rispoli   Website https://michaelrispoli.com/ ──────────────────────────────── CAUSE OF A KIND | @causeofakind Website https://www.causeofakind.com LinkedIn   / cause-of-a-kind   Instagram   / causeofakind   X https://x.com/causeofakind TikTok   / causeofakind   Newsletter Signup http://eepurl.com/gcc-yj Newsletter Archive https://us16.campaign-archive.com/hom... ──────────────────────────────── OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS CodeDojo https://github.com/Cause-of-a-Kind/co... OCR Ruby GEM https://activestorage-ocr-demo.fly.dev/ ──────────────────────────────── COMMUNITY INITIATIVES Long Island Technologists https://www.longislandtechnologists.com   / long-island-technologists-networking     / longislandtechnologists   ──────────────────────────────── We Build Products, Because We Want Them To Exist https://coakstudio.com ──────────────────────────────── Brought to you by Cause of a Kind A boutique software development and startup studio from Long Island, New York Stand up. Show up. Build.