The Competence Trap: Anatomy of a Captured Claude #Fail

By Dennis Kennedy on April 27, 2026

The prevailing narrative I hear in the legal world is that Claude is the “most human” of the LLMs and, especially, a nuanced, sophisticated writer. When I report that the…

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