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[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

There are tons more applications in the workplace. For example, one of the people in my team is dyslexic and sometimes needs to write reports that are a few pages long. For him, having the super-autocorrect tidy up his grammar makes a big difference.

Sometimes I have a list of say 200 software changes that would be a pain to summarise, but where it's intuitively easy for me to know if a summary is right. For something like a changelog I can roll the dice with the hallucination machine until I get a correct summary, then tidy it up. That takes less than a tenth of the time than writing it myself.

Sometimes writing is necessary and there's no way to cut down the drivel unfortunately. Talking about professional settings of course - having the Large Autocorrect writing a blog post or a poem for you is a total misuse of the tool in my opinion.

[–] Valmond 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

As a software dev, I have the feeling you just described texts that nobody will ever read :-) or so I feel.

Props for the dyslexic help tho.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Some of these are for insurance, government organisations... They are naturally dry but we can't get away from them.

Some others that I described like internal changelogs, I agree won't ever get read. Then if that's the case I don't care (much) about the quality - just about doing it as quickly as possible.