Jacob Lauritzen is the CTO of $5.6B enterprise legal tech startup Legora. He illustrates how internal teams use AI vibe coding to quickly deploy custom business software instead of buying third-party tools.
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Lauritzen: Legora is avoiding hiring remote engineers to prioritize in-person collaboration
“Well, we're very opinionated about who we are and who we aren't. We, if you're a great engineer and you want to be remote, then you probably also want to work on very isolated problems, and that's, that can be fine. We'll, we'll, we probably have those, and we…”
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Lauritzen: Writing code is no longer software development's main bottleneck
“And number two was the primary bottleneck for the past hundred years, almost. So like the rate limiter was how quickly can you write code? That is now super cheap. So that's sort of been compressed. And so the bottleneck now is like the two other ends, which i…”
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Lauritsen: Enterprise engineers will primarily define guardrails for autonomous agents
“And I think that type of guardrail setting will see everywhere. And so, if you're a big enterprise, and you're rolling out AI tooling, and you have agents that build your own internal software, you know, you have AI tools that build your HRAS system, and your,…”
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Lauritsen: Vibe coding clones hit 90% easily, but enterprise edge cases are hard
“It's very quick to get to the 90% where it looks the same, and in, like, 80% of the cases it works similarly. It's the other 90% that are difficult. You know, it's like ensuring all the edge cases work, and all the unhappy paths, and all the audit locking, and…”
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Lauritsen: Enterprise Customers Do Not Buy Legora Based on AI Models
“Let's say you took away a model from LIGORA, people would still pick LIGORA. So they don't buy it based on the model.”
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Lauritsen: Lawyers Prefer Superior Output Quality Over Fast Latency
“Almost always performance. Performance is more important. Almost always. If you're a lawyer, you can wait two seconds more for the output if it's better. You can probably wait an hour more for the output if it's better.”