Post #2160486
2026-02-07 11:09 UTC
@pojntfx @n0toose Please avoid LLMs for translations (if possible, it's difficult to do so nowadays). They are worse than their previous tech standard (neural machine translation) and at best comparable (when mixed with neural machine translation).
LLMs also suck hard for docs (unless your docs are supposed to follow corporate mispractices). Even grammar checking is better served by open source tools like codespell, hunspell and aspell.
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@pojntfx@mastodon.social 2026-02-07 11:23
@herzenschein @n0toose For translations I only use them into languages I'm at C1 or above at (English, German, French). I use LLMs because they can follow the file paths in the potfiles to find the correct word based on semantics. Then I manually step through the translated app and check with the HIG to make sure everything matches. Using them to localize for a language I don't fully understand is not what I'd recommend, ever.