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Law and Finance Lack Git-Like Systems to Capture Expert Judgment

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sarah guo wrote about "the untrainable," the part of expertise you can't hand to a model. private correctness.

here's the part that conversation skips: where it actually lives.

system of record = what your firm knows.

system of judgment = what your firm decides is good.

one of those got built 30 years ago. the other never did.

you can index every deck a firm ever made and learn nothing about how they actually decide.

the judgment was never in the documents.

the judgment is in the diff.

software kept its diffs and it's the first thing AI got good at.

law and finance never built their git.

Kunal Tangri@TangriKunal

"Capture your institutional knowledge" has meant the same thing for 30 years: index the documents, search over them.

But a document is the output of judgment with the judgment removed.

The judgment is in the diff. The markup between the first draft and the one that ships. And almost every firm throws it away.

@saranormous named the untrainable territory. At @farsight_ai we're building the instrument that lives inside it.

The System of Judgment.

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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

A firm’s judgment does not live in its archives; it lives in the changes (diffs) senior people make before work ships.

Farsight calls this a system of judgment, i.e software that preserves those edits across real work, can turn repeated decisions into measurable rules.

The next enterprise AI moat is not stored knowledge, but stored judgment.

If AI is going to learn the work of professional firms, it cannot learn only from polished outputs.

AI needs the gap between first draft and final draft, because that gap contains the firm’s private standard of what good means.

Kunal Tangri@TangriKunal

"Capture your institutional knowledge" has meant the same thing for 30 years: index the documents, search over them.

But a document is the output of judgment with the judgment removed.

The judgment is in the diff. The markup between the first draft and the one that ships. And almost every firm throws it away.

@saranormous named the untrainable territory. At @farsight_ai we're building the instrument that lives inside it.

The System of Judgment.

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Rohan Paul@rohanpaul_ai

@Meer_AIIT Approvals train compliance.

Redlines train judgment.

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Hunter Gon@gonlenidefi

@Meer_AIIT judgment as a diff is gonna haunt me. does any system actually track that in a useful way yet

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Jasper 🌰@building BBX@bbxjasper

@Meer_AIIT the untrainable part is tacit judgment, and it lives in the exceptions: the 100 times someone overrode the playbook. a model inherits the record but never sees the overrides, so it learns the rule and misses the wisdom.

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Dominique@0xDominiqq

@Meer_AIIT the doc ships clean, judgment stays hidden in what got deleted.

whats the protocol for capturing what didnt make the cut?

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Wystra@Wystral6t9

@Meer_AIIT Your firm's edge is usually hidden in thousands of small decisions