Post #4171059
2026-07-28 10:52 UTC
Above all, my interlocutors continue to insist that my LLM-powered, local, open source chatbot spellchecker will make me a worse writer. It's a very strange insistence. My first word processor was a program listing published in a magazine I bought at a corner store and laboriously typed into my Apple ][+. In the 40+ years since, word processors have gotten *lots* of new features, many of which I thought were useful and many more that I found annoying.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-07-28 10:53
There were even some of these features that made the writers who used them worse at writing, in my (expert) judgment. But from the very start, I knew that you couldn't just trust a spellchecker to correct your documents. I mean, I'm a *science fiction writer*. I started making up silly words *decades* before coining "enshittification." I've been telling spellcheckers to fuck off since I learned to type. 12/