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Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly

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645 points ReadCarlBarks | 1 comments | 20 Jun 25 19:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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pram ◴[20 Jun 25 22:20 UTC] No.44332656[source]▶
IMO not using LLMs is a big plus in my book. Grammarly has been going downhill since they've been larding it with "AI features," it has become remarkably inconsistent. It will tell me to remove a comma one hour, and then tell me to add it back the next.
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1. tiew9Vii ◴[21 Jun 25 10:26 UTC] No.44336321[source]▶
Being dyslexic, I was an avid Grammarly user. Once it started adding "AI features" the deterioration was noticeable, I cancelled my subscription and stopped using it a year ago.

I also only ever used the web app, so copy+pasting as installing the app is for all intentness and purposes is installing a key logger.

Grammar works on rules, not sure why that needs an LLM, Grammarly certainly worked better for me when it was more dumb, using rules.