{"id":162143,"date":"2026-09-02T08:04:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/02\/the-measuring-device-and-the-machine\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:04:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T16:04:59","slug":"the-measuring-device-and-the-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/09\/02\/the-measuring-device-and-the-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Measuring Device and the Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

As major firms grant billable-hour credit for AI training\u2014rewarding lawyers for learning to eliminate hours rather than generate them\u2014artificial intelligence threatens to sever the century-old connection between time spent and value delivered, potentially pulling apart the measuring device and the machine.\"\"<\/p>\n

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As major firms grant billable-hour credit for AI training\u2014rewarding lawyers for learning to eliminate hours rather than generate them\u2014artificial intelligence threatens to sever the century-old connection between time spent and value delivered, potentially pulling apart the measuring device and the machine.\"\"<\/p>\n

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As major firms grant billable-hour credit for AI training\u2014rewarding lawyers for learning to eliminate hours rather than generate them\u2014artificial intelligence threatens to sever the century-old connection between time spent and value delivered, potentially pulling apart the measuring device and the machine. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As major firms grant billable-hour credit for AI training\u2014rewarding lawyers for learning to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":162144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/legal-news-8JVQ3o.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}