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Grammarly Announces Layoffs
- kwertyoowiyop 3y agoAs I read it I cringed expecting him to call their employees “grammarians.” But it was even worse: “grammarlians.”
- whoswho 3y ago[flagged]
- darth_avocado 3y agoThe company is called Grammarly, calling the employees "Grammarlians" would be the correct grammar. If the company was Grammar, then the right term would be "Grammarians".
- sarimkhalid 3y agoI see what you did there...
- kwertyoowiyop 3y agoThe human “grammarlians” will now be replaced by “grammarLLMs.”
- xrd 3y agoIn Japanese, grammar is bumpou. I really wish they used that and called them bumpkins.
- c0balt 3y agoThe distance to gremlins is uncanny.
- kwertyoowiyop 3y agoHow about “grammarlions”? Fierce!
- deleted 3y ago[deleted]
- jonwest 3y agoI've yet to encounter a cutesy name for an organization's employees that isn't cringey, but ooof, when it's used in layoffs it feels so tone deaf. I really wish the name fad would pass.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y agoI think this is one of the casualties of ChatGPT and LLMs. They can do grammar and a whole lot of other things all for about the same priced subscription as Grammarly.
- roody15 3y agoI have found the free version of ChatGPT does as good if not better than Grammarly. I honestly not sure if there is much of a future for this product over next year or two.
- nicbou 3y agoDeepl Write is also rock solid and free.
- diegof79 3y agoI’ve both ChatGPT Premium and Grammarly Premium. If I have to choose to keep one subscription, that will be Grammarly. ChatGPT can do many things, and it’s impressive at generating text. But, people underestimate the advantage of good UX. With ChatGPT, I need to copy the text into a premade prompt or pick a GPT made to improve my writing. But, the writing style may not match what I want. Going back and forth with chat instructions is slow. With Grammarly, I write the text, then click on the suggestions and adapt the style. It's orders of magnitude faster. That's, to me, the Achilles heel of LLM chats: a specialized UI is more effective. So, there is room for competition in many areas, even if they use the same LLM APIs to implement it.
- ramon156 3y agoYou don't use ChatGPT to do your grammar.. there's more than just hypetool
- diegof79 3y agoExactly, I use ChatGPT for more than grammar: article summarization, as an assistant to learn new things, image generation with DallE, etc. But I keep using Grammarly for grammar because the UI is optimized for that use case. That's my point. ChatGPT is very powerful, but the chat interface is not optimized for every use case (is like the Excel of the next generation). The parent comment suggests that ChatGPT killed Grammarly... but Grammarly will kill itself if they don't focus on a superb UX optimized for their use case. The differentiator factor for any AI product will be a laser focus on a good UX for their specific audience.
- hustwindmaple1 3y agoOne of the most annoying companies that ad spams like crazy in 2020/2021. i literally had to beg them to stop sending ads my way. Now they are running out of money and have to cut staff. How ironic!
- ocdtrekkie 3y agoIf Grammarly had any idea how loudly I advise people not to entrust their data to Grammarly, I imagine they would regret the surely hundreds or thousands of dollars they spent showing me Grammarly ads.
- 15457345234 3y agoOn any given day 50% of my youtube adverts are Grammarly lol
- Supernaut 3y agoUntil I discovered the magic of uBlock, a visit to YouTube always prompted a blizzard of Grammarly ads. I could never understand the premise of these clips, in which native speakers of English - specifically, university students and young white-collar workers - were shown having to use the software to help them to write emails. Protip: if you spent nearly two decades in full-time education but somehow remain unable to construct a proper written sentence in your native language... your parents should ask for their money back.
- cafard 3y ago> Protip: if you spent nearly two decades in full-time education but somehow remain unable to construct a proper written sentence in your native language... your parents should ask for their money back. In principle, I agree with you. But long ago, I worked as a copy editor, and can tell you that time in school has a weak correlation with the ability to construct a proper written sentence. But no, nothing I've seen from Grammarly suggests that it would be much help.
- phonon 3y ago
- webninja 3y agoWeird, they’ve been hiring all January.
- 15457345234 3y agoAnnouncing layoffs and pairing the announcement with something about AI appears to be a bit of a pattern at the moment. Something something psyop something something
- matrix12 3y agoCommon Lisp looses to LLMs again...