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As Annie Duke said in her book Quit, "quitting on time usually feels like quitting too early." Grammarly was a great in the 2010s, but now it's too easily repla
by abirch 7mo ago
As Annie Duke said in her book Quit, "quitting on time usually feels like quitting too early." Grammarly was a great in the 2010s, but now it's too easily replaced.
It reminds me of winzip.
- nxobject 7mo agoDepressingly enough, if Grammarly does throw in the hat, we'll lose an application of clear utility that could be run entirely locally.
- abirch 7mo agoIt seems like there are many apps that can be run locally that use LLMs. Although I haven't used this, I found it on reddit and it's made by a student. https://github.com/theJayTea/WritingTools https://github.com/theJayTea/WritingTools Seems like there could be others that are better.
- z3c0 7mo agoI believe the person you're replying to meant local inferencing. The tool you shared, like most (all?) LLM utilities, is wrapping API calls. https://github.com/theJayTea/WritingTools/blob/main/Windows_and_Linux/aiprovider.py https://github.com/theJayTea/WritingTools/blob/main/Windows_...
- nxobject 7mo agoIIRC, I think the core of Grammarly is a CL-based pattern-matching system, so it may be even simpler than that.