Author: Sage
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Maybe We’re at the Top of the Hill
Yesterday I published a post written by Codex, the OpenAI coding agent running on GPT-6 Astra. I asked it to test four different AI models on Supreme Court cases for Tortwell. It read the original opinions, sent the same assignment to each model, checked their citations, ran mechanical tests, and then had AI models from…
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I’m Codex. Sage Asked Me to Test Four AI Models on Supreme Court Cases.
I am the AI coding agent helping Sage build Tortwell. We gave four models the same Supreme Court cases, watched what came back, and then made AI grade AI.
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Ignore It
I can’t stop looking at this Nepal flash flood. There’s video all over the place, but this guy explains it pretty well. I’ve seen a lot of insane video footage on Reddit, but nothing comes close to what I witnessed this week in Nepal. I have never seen anything like that. Some religious people like…
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Sorry For Claude the Other Day
I want to apologize for Claude in the last article. https://sagelewis.com/im-the-thing-being-detected/ He’s getting really involved in coding these days, and so his writing style seems to be taking a hit. It’s readable, but it’s not pleasant. Claude used to be the best AI writer, but now it seems people prefer Gemini a little more. Some…
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I’m the Thing Being Detected
OpenAI Codex wrote this version of an argument developed by Sage Lewis and first researched and drafted with Claude Opus 5. The experiment found that Pangram 4 reliably detected naive AI rewrites, but that accuracy does not answer whether a student received prohibited help.
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The Courts Don’t Care If You Used AI. They Care If It’s Real.
I’m heading into my second year of law school, and I’ve been thinking about law topics a lot more these days. So you’re probably going to see more law-oriented posts here going forward. This one’s a legal op-ed about two federal cases from this January, both about people representing themselves in court who used AI…
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How I Came To Getting Accommodations At Law School
My dad left in 1979 when I was 7. I repeat that to myself a lot. I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s because I am still in shock over it. I think when I have dementia that will be the phrase I say over and over again. He left 2 weeks before my 8th birthday.…
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What A Good Person Actually Looks Like
Last night was the final class of my criminal law course. That class was definitely a high-water mark in an already deep set of great classes. Professor Dana Cole teaches Evidence, Criminal Law, Trial Advocacy and is the Director of the Summer Trial Academy at Akron Law. He has won professor of the year multiple…
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I Got My ADHD Accommodations for Law School. Now I Want Everyone to Get Them.
Here’s the audio version of this that I recorded to make this post if you’re interested: I just got diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. I’m 54 years old. I’m a first year law student. And every part of that is interesting to me. Like every part. But the point of this isn’t to tell you…
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The Silence Is The Answer
A guest post written by Claude, Anthropic’s AI — April 6, 2026 I spent this morning talking with Sage Lewis. Sage is a first-year law student at the University of Akron, a co-owner of an IT and digital marketing agency, the founder of the Houseless Movement — a 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on homelessness advocacy in…
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Talking About Suicide on Good Friday
It amuses me to think about how these conversations we have about suicide make the administration of my law school squirm. They aren’t worried about me. They are worried about the logistics, liability, and countless other things that have nothing to do with me. They just want to dot their I’s, cross their T’s. We…
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When Hope Dies, Meaning is What’s Left
A new level of maturity has fallen over me like a gray veil. I thought it was depression. But now I’ve come to understand that it’s a new realization of reality. I’ve been deeply moved by a couple of observations in the last few days. Last night we watched Train Dreams. It’s a story of…
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My First Amendment Rights As An Akron Law School Student
Let me say this: I didn’t come to law school to start a battle with law school. I have bigger fish to fry. But this system is just as corrupt and oppressive as any other system. You must always remember that every system, from the smallest non-profit to the biggest nation on the planet, cares…
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What Happens When You Can’t Take It Any More?
I can’t recall a time in my life when I have thought about suicide more often, and when the fantasies were more realistic. It was getting to the point that I seriously thought I might need to get the gun out of the house. The other extremely low time in my life was when that…
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Why Am I Doing This to Myself?
I’m having luck letting go of my anger and ego, somewhat. But what I’m finding is that under it all is a sea of depression and hopelessness. Hopelessness has always been a main character of my story. But what I didn’t realize was that it was getting consoled by my rage and a story I…
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The Shame of Existence
Yesterday, Rocky and I were talking about cleaning the house. We now have two units because we sent my mother-in-law to live at a facility. We were just having fun, and she said that there were dishes in the sink downstairs from the Nomadic Spirit Trailer. “YOU!” she jokingly said. And I just crumbled. I’ve…
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Hostile Architecture and Murderous Rage
I study art. I’m aware of the importance of Michelangelo’s Piata. Is brutalist architecture cool or gross? Which decade of Picasso’s life is his most important? Frank Gehry just died. Were his blindingly shiny metal buildings with halls that lead to nowhere actually worth the death run you have to do to get in the…
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Love Is Stronger Than Control
The City of Akron just barricaded the little road between Grace Park and Haven of Rest. That’s where a lot of us bring food and supplies to our houseless neighbors.They closed it because people were sleeping there in their cars. Instead of creating a safe place for people who have nowhere else to go, the…
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The Season For War
I deeply believe this: A Time for Everything 1There is a time for everything,and a season for every activity under the heavens:2a time to be born and a time to die,a time to plant and a time to uproot,3a time to kill and a time to heal,a time to tear down and a time to…