"Grammarly’s Expert Review feature serves as a case in point for how people feel about generative AI at the moment..."

I realized I was focusing on the process of getting stuff done, instead of focusing on how to actually get that same stuff done. That is the wrong way to go about #productivity.

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AI agents can be enormously helpful. The key word is "can". It is not always a guarantee.

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I've been watching this project for some time now. What would it take to package it into a Tauri app?

I Built a Lightweight Scratchpad for Harper I aimed to stop running LanguageTool on my Mac while exploring speed and privacy benefits of the Harper Chrome extension in Vivaldi. I created an HTML file you can use offline, mimicking the text a…

It looks like we may need to start pressing harder on the desktop app experience.

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Confronting the CEO of the AI company that impersonated me Superhuman CEO Shishir Mehrotra responds to the Grammarly “expert review” controversy, and whether AI is extracting more value than it creates.

Grammarly is systematically destroying their user's trust in their product. Watching @reckless.bsky.social's interview gives me the impression that their CEO is incredibly disconnected from the experiences of their users. www.theverge.com/podcast/8987...

TIL: Apple and Microsoft have better credit ratings than the U.S. Government

Awesome! Thank you.

I'm going to try to figure out how many users you had back then so I can know when to expect it for our plugin.

We've mostly focused on making our Chrome extension amazing, but I intend to focus more on our Firefox offering. Their support for critical APIs is somewhat spurious.

Stephen Wolfram and Matt Mullenweg | dev/ai/nyc YouTube video by Automattic

Riveting

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I do not. I believe your right. Do you have any idea when that started happening?

That's strange. I maintain an open source extension and I've found that Firefox is consistently the fastest.

Not yet. We're exploring the idea, but want to make sure we address the needs of our existing users first.

Unfortunately, the market seems heavily tilted toward Windows.

Oh, I see the problem. Some browsers don't like the apostrophe in the URL.

Try this one: elijahpotter.dev/articles/har...

It's up on my end. Would you give it another go? It may have been a spurious network error.

To provide a framework which reduces the amount of time that overly complex patch requests produced by LLMs can take to address, I've put together this policy. I hope this helps streamline the process and make it easier to handle these requests efficiently.

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It's great to hear that you've been enjoying it! Please don't hesitate to DM me if you run into any issues.

My thirst for the written word had given me a superpower.

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These are exactly the kinds of problems Harper avoids by virtue of being open source.

Harper does not do these things.

Please use literally anything else.

We need a desperate push for private alternatives that actually respect your privacy and digital sovereignty.

Take back your writing with writewithharper.com

Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

I know all press is good press... but there are limits.

If it feels like Grammarly does not respect your right to digital sovereignty, it is because it does not.

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Hey,

I'm the guy who maintains the Harper project.

That is indeed a pretty embarrassing false positive. I'll make sure it gets ironed out in the next release. Thanks for giving it a whirl!

I've been seeing an increasingly prevalent trend of people proudly flaunting that they are writing with the assistance of AI.

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#AIwriting #ArtificialIntelligence #Creativity #ContentCreation

As an open source maintainer, I frequently both receive and create pull requests that could be labeled as slop. So my question becomes, how can I turn AI generated code from "slop" tier to "top tier"?

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I've been thinking a lot about why so much software feels harmful, and it got me wondering how we can build software that truly serves humans.

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#oss

feat(ls): add support for `TeX` and derivative languages by elijah-potter · Pull Request #2689 · Automattic/harper Issues #79. Related to #2073. Description Notably, both @grantlemons and @shreyasminocha have attempted to build LaTeX parsers for Harper. The complexities of the language and the incompatible...

Harper will soon support LaTeX.

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Tally - Word Counter Your favorite dark mode word counter, now with grammar checking! Count the number of characters, words, sentences, paragraphs, and lines in your text instantly with Tally.

Someone new is using Harper behind-the-scenes for grammar checking. Check out Tally!

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Harper, My New Grammar Checker For years I’ve used the popular Code Spell Checker extension for VS Code. While it’s been great for spell checking, as I write more in VS Code, especially in using Hugo for this site, I’ve wanted some...

I saw that @chriswiegman.com just blogged about writing with Harper in VS Code. Great stuff.

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