"Barney—The End of Lawyers" & The Rate at Which AI Is Accelerating Daily

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It was just May 14th—a month ago—that I wrote an article over on LinkedIn about how AI was going to force big changes to the legal profession (The Professional Class is Next: How AI Will Gut Big Law, Accounting, and the Billable Hour).

Within a few days, I had written two more articles on how AI was going to similarly impact: medicine, nursing, and eldercare; and then teaching, schooling, and education itself.

On May 27th, I stitched those three articles together and republished them as a whole mini-ebook here on Substack (The Professional Collapse: How AI Is Gutting Consulting, Law, Accounting, Medicine, and Education Before Our Eyes). That mini-ebook is my second most popular posting here on Substack currently.

Great for me, I suppose, but I don't think anything I wrote back then was all that revelatory even then, but I enjoyed putting my thoughts down for people to read.'

What has now really struck me is a corollary to what I wrote a month ago which Douwe Groenevelt's 8:26-long short-film that debuted less than 24-hours ago much more clearly indicates to me tonight—it's all going to happen across the professional classes and off into so many more industry classes a lot more quickly than any of us likely can expect or predict. (His short-film is so brand new that as of 1:27am Eastern Time the day after it debuted, it still isn’t showing up in traditional search engine search results! Wow, are things moving fast!)

Just look at how rapidly the state of technology in the AI-generated combined audio-video output has advanced since Veo3 debuted on May 20th . . . in under a month, we went from 8-second-long clips that had very rough consistency transitions when stitched together to a stitched-together, smoothly continuous 8.5-minute-long short film.

What day next week will someone debut the first full-length feature film? And, the Midjourney IP infringement lawsuit filed six days ago on June 11th be damned, many fanboys of Star Trek, Star Wars and Marvel with too much free time and money on-hand are going to do that with one or more of those cherished pieces of IP just for fun and to please the real fan base ASAP, I bet. Hollywood, Disney, Universal and Paramount likely don't have a prayer of getting a Napster-like ruling in the US District Court in Los Angeles in time to prevent that from happening. Good luck, Marvel with those Avengers movies currently slated for December 2026 and December 2027. Ha!

Look out, everyone! Big changes are coming "quickfast" to quote my mom!

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