The Legal Engineer Podcast

Rob Taylor

The podcast that explains why most legal AI tools are just a single prompt in a nice interface — and what to build instead. 46 episodes covering legal AI software architecture from the ground up: parallel specialist swarms, prompt builder patterns, streaming, OOXML Track Changes, and the engineering decisions that separate demos from production systems. Hosted by Brian Baker. Sponsored by Taylor Legal Engineering. Where law meets architecture.

  1. Feb 23

    The Scoring Problem: How Do You Know If Your AI Is Getting Better?

    You've built a legal AI pipeline. Your first client says it's great. Your second says it missed something. But HOW MUCH better? By what measure? If you can't quantify quality, you can't improve it.

    27 min

  2. Feb 23

    Promise.allSettled: The One Line of Code That Changes Everything

    One line of code. The difference between a system that loses ALL results when one thing fails and a system that keeps everything that succeeded. Promise.allSettled instead of Promise.all.

    27 min

  3. Feb 23

    The Playbook Problem: Teaching AI Your Firm's Position

    Your best partner has 20 years of pattern recognition. They know uncapped indemnification is a deal-breaker, 99.5% SLA is below market, 30-day cure is standard. That knowledge lives in their head. When they retire, it walks out the door.

    27 min

  4. Feb 23

    OOXML: The File Format That Makes Legal AI Work

    That .docx file on your desktop isn't a document. It's a ZIP archive. Rename it, unzip it, and you'll find XML. Track Changes are w:ins and w:del elements. When AI writes these natively, its edits are indistinguishable from a partner's.

    27 min

  5. Feb 23

    Temperature, Tokens, and the Physics of Legal AI

    Three misconceptions even experienced AI users get wrong. One: temperature zero makes AI deterministic. It doesn't. Two: max tokens means max words. It doesn't. Three: context window means memory. It doesn't.

    27 min

  6. Feb 23

    Certification Is Coming: What Legal Engineer Will Mean in 5 Years

    Every discipline that matters eventually gets a certification. CPAs. PMP. CISSP. Legal engineering is next. The first certified legal engineers won't just hold a credential — they'll have defined what it means.

    28 min

  7. Feb 23

    Legal AI Beyond English: The Multilingual Frontier

    A cross-border M&A deal. Contracts in English, German, Japanese, Portuguese. Traditional: four law firms, four timelines, four invoices. Now imagine: one pipeline, four language-specific agents, all running in parallel.

    28 min

  8. Feb 23

    The In-House Counsel's New Superpower

    In-house legal has always been a cost center. What if your team could process every contract in the portfolio in an afternoon, surface every auto-renewal proactively, quantify total liability exposure in real-time? That's not a cost center. That's a competitive advantage.

    28 min
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The podcast that explains why most legal AI tools are just a single prompt in a nice interface — and what to build instead. 46 episodes covering legal AI software architecture from the ground up: parallel specialist swarms, prompt builder patterns, streaming, OOXML Track Changes, and the engineering decisions that separate demos from production systems. Hosted by Brian Baker. Sponsored by Taylor Legal Engineering. Where law meets architecture.

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