Case-Based Reasoning

Rules are easy when the facts repeat themselves. The previous case had a bribe, this case has a bribe; the previous decision went one way, so the new decision should probably follow. That is the comforting version of precedent. It is also the version most likely to make legal AI look coherent in a demo and naïve in production. A small inconvenience, but tradition has survived worse. ...

TL;DR for operators Most enterprise AI projects are still built around a polite fantasy: give the model a prompt, attach a vector database, sprinkle in Chain-of-Thought, and somehow the system will behave like an experienced employee. That works until the agent meets a problem where the correct answer depends less on general knowledge and more on organisational precedent. ...