{"slug": "where-the-heck-have-i-been-all-this-time", "title": "Where the heck have I been all this time?", "summary": "The author, a former Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab researcher, spent three years building a legal writing tool after ChatGPT's 2022 launch, only to face insurmountable challenges with GenAI hallucinations. He suffered a heart attack and stroke in July, followed by a 10-week recovery, explaining his extended absence.", "body_md": "I owe you all an explanation of where I have been. The story starts in 2022 when ChatGPT came out and everyone decided to get rich. I know I did. So, I bullied my dear friend – a legendary lawyer – into building a legal writing tool. Within a week we knew our mission was close to impossible because of failures in GenAI. There were imperfect products we could have sold but didn’t – dooming ourselves instead to a three-year product cycle to defeat the nightmare called LLM hallucinations. I was the chief architect, in over my head despite starting at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab back in 1978. Then last July I had a heart attack and a stroke followed by 10 weeks in […]\n\nThe post", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/where-the-heck-have-i-been-all-this-time", "canonical_source": "https://www.cringely.com/2026/05/27/where-the-heck-have-i-been-all-this-time/", "published_at": "2026-05-27 20:16:21+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-27 20:42:31.898461+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-ai", "large-language-models", "ai-startups", "ai-products", "ai-research"], "entities": ["ChatGPT", "Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/where-the-heck-have-i-been-all-this-time", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/where-the-heck-have-i-been-all-this-time.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/where-the-heck-have-i-been-all-this-time.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/where-the-heck-have-i-been-all-this-time.jsonld"}}