Grammarly Announces Layoffs
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Now they are running out of money and have to cut staff. How ironic!
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.
I would have thought that both were different, but grammatically correct, with almost identical meaning.
"A properly written sentence" is a sentence that is properly written, and "a proper written sentence" is a written sentence that is proper.
But now I have achieved semantic saturation, and am not sure anymore.
[1] https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/general_writing/grammar/how_to_us...
The way I read it, the choice of "proper written sentence" gives it the flavour of "Proper. Written. Sentence" - as in, with an annoyed emphasis.
As always, you can apply rules to English if you like, but sometimes they are optional.
Anecdotally, the individuals I work with who use Grammarly are among the most proficient speakers and writers. They can write fine, but they'd prefer to spend time writing rather than editing and Grammarly picks up the slack.
Those are usually targeted through personal email addresses and device IDs. Impossible to opt out on users' end.
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.
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.
Sounds like a UX problem that's trivial to solve with a browser plugin.
I guess at least in Grammarly you can be sure it is correct.