The article is talking about passwords which makes auto-correct useless, but I also do a lot of stuff over SSH (SQL queries, UNIX commands, basic vim editing) a

The article is talking about passwords which makes auto-correct useless, but I also do a lot of stuff over SSH (SQL queries, UNIX commands, basic vim editing) and the ability to do so allows me to be farther away from my desk even on days when I'm responsible for tech support and diagnosing problems with our products/servers so accurate typing is very critical to me personally. Aside from that (and this is purely anecdotal) I spend a reasonable amount of my time de-autocorrecting typos sent to me by people using auto-correct on their phones. I also found in my time using a touchscreen keyboard (and, during that time I was not using auto-correct specifically because I wanted to train myself to be able to work without it for reasons mentioned previously) the lack of physical feedback and the fact that there was only one "mode" of touch (either touching or not touching) where as with a physical keyboard you have not touching, touching and actively pressing meant that I would continually make the same mistakes over and over and over, where as within a day or so of using a new physical keyboard I've adapted to it and my error rates drop significantly.