May 4, 2026

More reader feedback re Filing Sucks

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Fellow list member Avi Marcus wrote in with a follow-up observation to my Filing Sucks message from the other day (shared with permission):

This is just part of my theory - even if AI doesn’t ever get better, the tooling and integration around AI will be catching up for years and unlocking more and more value.

So it’s not just a blind “of course AI will be even better in a few years” it’s “look, we’re still working on smoothing integrating it into our workflow and it’s taking time, but that’s mostly grunt work and nothing magical”.

-Avi

Thanks, Avi!

I think this is a really good point.

Even if the base models stop improving, they will still become more useful as the scaffolding around them improves.

So unless the base models degrade or disappear, AI is probably going to be something consultants will have to contend with for quite some time.

Yours,

—J