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Ask HN: Has AI made you stop caring about the intricacies of English grammar?
Why bother studying English grammar when you could just have AI correct your writing?
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- nonrandomstring 2y agoWhy bother? Let Bill Hicks explain..... You know I've noticed a certain anti-intellectualism going around this country ever since around 1980, coincidentally enough. I was in Nashville, Tennessee last weekend and after the show I went to a waffle house and I'm sitting there and I'm eating and reading a book. I don't know anybody, I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm reading a book. This waitress comes over to me (mocks chewing gum) 'what you readin' for?'...wow, I've never been asked that; not 'What am I reading', 'What am I reading for?' Well, goddamnit, you stumped me...I guess I read for a lot of reasons — the main one is so I don't end up being a fuckin' waffle waitress. - Bill Hicks
- JohnFen 2y agoYou only communicate in writing?
- ben_w 2y agoI tried interpretive dance once. Once.
- dtgm92 2y agoWhy bother anything when you could just have AI do it
- cratermoon 2y agoIf you can't be bothered to write well, I can't be bothered to read what AI wrote. BTW people said this about spell checkers at one point. "Why bother learning to spell, the computer will fix it" https://www.thoughtco.com/spell-checker-poem-by-mark-eckman-1692348 https://www.thoughtco.com/spell-checker-poem-by-mark-eckman-... I have a spelling checker It came with my PC It highlights for my review Mistakes I cannot sea. I ran this poem thru it I'm sure your pleased to no Its letter perfect in it's weigh My checker told me sew.
- Cheyana 2y agoI’ve used it for work to write code to perform administrative tasks, but I draw the line at asking it to write anything, preferring my own way of expressing myself. My co-worker uses it with abandon however, and people are taking him less seriously now.
- amichail 2y agoYour employer is more concerned with the quality of your written communication than with your code?
- Cheyana 2y agoApologies, I should have clarified, I work in IT but I’m not a coder. I use ChatGPT and Claude for Powershell and Python scripts to do administrative tasks or queries about all the user accounts and printers in our Active Directory. My co-worker, on the other hand, uses it to write wordy emails and it’s a dead giveaway, as everyone knows he doesn’t normally speak or write like that. It’s entirely my personal preference to not use it for expressing myself. I guess we’re kind of in the same boat really. I use it so I don’t have to learn how to code, and he uses it so he doesn’t have to learn how to write.