Yue Deng-Wu

building Kaleida (AI decision coach) • self-taught iOS engineer • prev lawyer @DLA_piper

[Yue Deng-Wu @yuedengwu]

The San Francisco Civil Grand Jury published a report raising the alarm about the crisis in the San Francisco County Jails.

The facilities are dangerously overcrowded. It's at the point where the Sheriff’s Office is struggling to meet its legal obligations to people in custody, including providing the space for exercise and adequate medical care. Many have acute mental health needs that require immediate care. Staff are stretched thin, with some working more than 100 hours a week.

Civil Grand Juries are government oversight panels made up of volunteers from the community. They don’t have enforcement power, but they play an important role in bringing attention to critical issues in our cities.

Please share this to help raise awareness. @MLNow

https://t.co/7LeeBIyqv4

[Yue Deng-Wu @yuedengwu]

@itsbrianscherer These stats are 🔥

[Brian Scherer @itsbrianscherer]

I'm challenging HeyCounsel members to build 25 law firm websites in 1 hour using Claude. These are high-quality, SEO + AEO optimized, modern websites built using skills our team has iterated on over the last few months. If you want to join us a build a new site for your firm, join us Wednesday. It's free and it's an easy way to learn Claude Code, get your feet wet, and leave with something tangible.

https://t.co/2C1goh3R40

[Yue Deng-Wu @yuedengwu]

@itsbrianscherer @heycounsel Really useful and interesting data. Thanks for sharing!

[Brian Scherer @itsbrianscherer]

What's the perfect tech stack for a solo or boutique law firm? Our latest tool, HeyCounsel Pulse, gives some clarity. Here's a few nuggets from our Solo & Small Firm Tech Stack Report:

1. Lawyers are pretty pleased with AI. Claude is the most-used tool in the entire report. 84% of the lawyers we surveyed use it, and they rate it 4.5 out of 5 in terms of satisfaction. I guess everyone is "AI-native" now...

2. Clio still runs the back office. It's the most-used tool for practice management, billing, and timekeeping (roughly half the market in each), but it rates a middling 3.8. Point solutions have better ratings, but cover less ground.

3. Does Westlaw still run the table on research? Not exactly. Claude actually leads on adoption now (36% to Westlaw's 31%), and GC AI (23%) quietly tops the satisfaction scores at 4.7, but with less adoption in that category.

4. Many are still taking meeting notes manually (30%), though AI note-takers like Granola, Fathom and Zoom AI are catching up fast.

5. Nearly 1 in 3 firms still run client intake on a spreadsheet. It's the biggest tech gap we found.

6. Lawyers are building their own software now. The "vibe coding" category was led by Claude Code (73%), in a category that barely existed a year ago.

7. Dropbox Sign earned the lowest rating in the entire survey (2.5), and our report suggests some alternatives for lawyers who are fed up.

8. Most-loved, least-used: Mercury for banking. A perfect 5.0 at just 12% adoption. GC AI is also deemed a "Hidden Gem" for its 4.7 score for Legal Research.

We evaluated 19 categories and 100+ tools. Check it out at https://t.co/oIcghfHUQu

[Yue Deng-Wu @yuedengwu]

@thebsideedit Yesss to the bag charm!!

[alexa @thebsideedit]

branded swag had its tote bag era, and now we all have 15 tote bags stuffed inside another tote bag. we’re currently in the hat era, slowly building a hat shelf. personally, I’m pushing hard for bag charm era

[Yue Deng-Wu @yuedengwu]

Sending each other the same content at the same time is a love language.

[Yue Deng-Wu @yuedengwu]

@itsbrianscherer @heycounsel 🔥

[Yue Deng-Wu @yuedengwu]

@vladgeorgescu 😭

[Yue Deng-Wu @yuedengwu]

@lawheroezV2 😂😂😂

[Yue Deng-Wu @yuedengwu]

This is such a sweet idea!

[austin lau @helloitsaustin]

I got married this past weekend so I did what any rational @AnthropicAI employee would do and had Claude Code analyze 12 years of iMessages with my wife, then Claude Design used that data to whip up a website for our guests in just minutes.

[Brian Scherer @itsbrianscherer]

On April 21, we challenged lawyers from all over the world to spend an afternoon building real, production-ready skills with Claude Cowork.

5 hours. 200+ lawyers. 10+ countries. 13 completed projects producing new legal AI skills.

Every skill is live on our showcase site at https://t.co/mpsRkvHmKY

[Yue Deng-Wu @yuedengwu]

Omg pro tip

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

If you ever need a reference for drawing your wizard, look up orchestra conductors.

[Yue Deng-Wu @yuedengwu]

Designers, don’t miss out on this.

[Belinda Huang @belindahuang]

Less than a week out. Four designers with something to say— come hear it.

Open Tab is a series of short talks on what designers are actually thinking about right now. Intimate, geared toward product designers, but really just a good excuse to get good people in a room. 🧡

Excited to announce May's lineup:
• @alexkehr on injecting your design taste into AI coding tools
• Lois on reinventing yourself in the age of AI
• @vladgeorgescu on herding agents toward a shared goal
• @yitong on design post-third impact

If you're in SF, grab a spot → https://t.co/4OpHh95lfT

Want to speak at a future one or partner? DM me or apply → https://t.co/2OGBnHV3ui

[Yue Deng-Wu @yuedengwu]

"How hard can this be?" has delivered the most chaotic and interesting adventures in my career.

[Yue Deng-Wu @yuedengwu]

@Clevy_Law Truth 😂 and it’s often harder to get them to understand that their thing isn’t urgent than to solve their problem