Agents need more than a chat - Jacob Lauritzen, CTO Legora
Apr 22, 2026 · 14:21
Jacob Lauritzen, CTO of Legora, argues that vertical AI agents handling complex work need collaboration interfaces beyond simple chat. He introduces the verifier's rule—tasks easy to verify get solved by AI—and shows how legal work spans from easy-to-verify contract definitions to impossible-to-verify litigation strategy. Lauritzen explains that increasing trust requires making tasks verifiable (e.g., test-driven development, proxy verification with golden contracts) or adding guardrails, while increasing control demands moving from low-control agent trees to planning, then to skills and elicitation where agents ask humans for decisions. He criticizes chat as one-dimensional and low-bandwidth, advocating for high-bandwidth persistent artifacts like documents and tabular reviews where humans can highlight clause three or flag items, enabling effective human-agent collaboration and progressive discovery without losing context.
