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The first time I saw a defense attorney with a 100% dismissal rate in the court data, my gut said that can't be real. The gut was right, but not for the reason I assumed.
My contact form never worked. My hospital pricing site went eight days without an update while every check I normally ran came back clean. The word 'shipped' was doing more work than I'd earned.
Everyone's drawing the same lesson from AI: the work is free now, so judgment is what's left. That take is everywhere and useless. Here's the narrower one I'd defend — judgment evaporates unless you log it, and the only entries worth keeping are the times you overruled the machine and were right.
Hospitals publish prices. Courts publish dockets. The civic-data work isn't getting it published. It's bridging the gap from published to usable.
Most data tools claim accuracy. Few are verifiable. What turns a dashboard into a citable source isn't the data. It's the receipts a stranger can check.
Hospitals are required to publish their prices. Published doesn't mean usable. Here's what I built and what the data actually shows.
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