Wanted to be a lawyer. Now, less than 3 years into it, lawyering (at least in my transactional practice) is pretty quickly evolving into a job where I’m expected to spend a material amount of time engineering AI prompts and cleaning up AI output vs pre-AI lawyering tasks.
I think it’s probably true that the lawyers who will succeed moving forward are those that incorporate AI into their practices, and I’m doing so myself, but am also just feeling less sure than ever that this is actually how I want to spend my time.
For some shitty tasks, I guess trying to get AI to do the job instead of doing it myself could be seen as making my life easier or better. but overall it feels like this is just a very different job than I set out to do back when I applied for law school and Im not that into it.
Are most people excited about AI, or frustrated like me?