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AI is changing how products behave and how they are built. Product lawyering has to change too.

Here's my attempt to describe how.

I'd love to hear if this rings true to folks who are still product counseling.

https://www.bricoleur.org/2026/06/product-counselling-in-ai-era.html

Product Counselling in the AI Era

AI is changing how products behave and how they are built. Product lawyering has to change too. Product counsel have always needed to unde...

Alexander Macgillivray May 29

If you are considering a lens for Safari, I'm a big fan of the new NIKKOR Z 70-200mm. More photos at https://share.google/mikgGTfYqJAKwExzR

Alexander Macgillivray May 27

My current AI codegen setup

https://www.bricoleur.org/2026/05/my-current-ai-codegen-setup.html

What am I doing wrong? What's your setup?

My Current AI Codegen Setup

This is as of May 2026, it’ll likely change. Models: I mostly use the Anthropic models (a mix of opus , sonnet and haiku ). At this p...

Alexander Macgillivray May 13

Enjoyed Bill Gurley's Runnin' Down a Dream. Non-conformity pushes are always good.
I'd add: Have the same calculus when you get to your dream, don't then run away from it up the ladder. Too many folks take promotions that replace what they love with management.
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/runnin-down-a-dream-how-to-thrive-in-a-career-you-actually-love-bill-gurley/6a1d5327ee2e8c10?ean=9781911709855&next=t

Alexander Macgillivray May 5

Am a little late to this but EFF's Cindy Cohn's memoir is wonderful. A great description of a fight well fought and a life well lived.

https://bookshop.org/p/books/privacy-s-defender-my-thirty-year-fight-against-digital-surveillance-cindy-cohn/366f2e03e0f8a632?ean=9780262051248

Alexander Macgillivray Jan 11

The Public Domain Review Jan 11

Chemistry of Combustion and Illumination, a diagram from Edward Livingston Youmans' Chemical Atlas; or, The Chemistry of Familiar Objects (1856). ⠀
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Order as a print here: https://publicdomainreview.org/product/chemistry-of-combustion-and-illumination

Alexander Macgillivray Jan 9

Made a bot that posts an old "Suck.com" article every day. It tries to use one related to today's news.

Follow it at @barrelofsuck

Read abou it: https://www.bricoleur.org/2026/01/finally-finished-up-bot-for-posting.html

Barrel of Suck: A bot to surface relevant old Suck.com articles

Finally finished up a bot for posting an article from Suck.com everyday through Mastodon and BlueSky (I would have done Threads too, but ...

Alexander Macgillivray Jul 24, 2024

Sarah Fackrell Jul 24, 2024

The bar exam is next week.

For any bar-takers out there: You've got this.

And if you happen to have a bad day and fail the first time, it's okay. You can still be a great lawyer. Hang in there.

#LawFedi

Alexander Macgillivray Jul 23, 2024

Lawfare Jul 23, 2024

On today's Lawfare Daily, Alan Rozenshtein and Matt Perault talked to @amac about his recent Lawfare piece on making AI policy in a world of technological uncertainty and how to do just that. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfare-daily--ai-policy-under-technological-uncertainty--with-alex--amac--macgillivray

Lawfare Daily: AI Policy Under Technological Uncertainty, with Alex “amac” Macgillivray

Discussing how to think about AI policy in an everchanging environment.

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Alexander Macgillivray Jun 5, 2024

That said, making really clear that workers can express issues with their places of employment is great low hanging fruit that can be done voluntarily by the companies (and mandated in law).

And... it is a thing that we need regardless of whether AI ever gets smarter or stays at about its current level of competence.

See:
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-we-don-t-know-about-ai-and-what-it-means-for-policy

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What We Don’t Know About AI and What It Means for Policy

AI’s future cost and the trajectory of its development are currently unknown. Good AI policy will take that into account.

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