I just spent five weeks writing a book with an AI. Not prompting it and cleaning up the output. Writing with it — the way you write with a co-author. The AI read a bunch of my earlier blog posts, absorbed my voice, argued with me about word choices, restructured chapters when our argument was not landing, and caught its own mistakes before I did. When we disagreed, we worked it out the way colleagues do — I explained my reasoning, it explained its reasoning, and we found the version that was better than either of us had separately. That experience broke something in my head. I have spent the last several years helping law firms figure out their AI strategy, and somewhere in the middle of week two I realized that most firms have never experienced anything remotely like this. You