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Grammarly Announces Layoffs

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Re: Grammarly Announces Layoffs

#11

One of the most annoying companies that ad spams like crazy in 2020/2021. i literally had to beg them to stop sending ads my way. Now they are running out of money and have to cut staff. How ironic!

If Grammarly had any idea how loudly I advise people not to entrust their data to Grammarly, I imagine they would regret the surely hundreds or thousands of dollars they spent showing me Grammarly ads.

On any given day 50% of my youtube adverts are Grammarly lol

Re: Grammarly Announces Layoffs

#12

I think this is one of the casualties of ChatGPT and LLMs. They can do grammar and a whole lot of other things all for about the same priced subscription as Grammarly.

I’ve both ChatGPT Premium and Grammarly Premium.

If I have to choose to keep one subscription, that will be Grammarly.

ChatGPT can do many things, and it’s impressive at generating text. But, people underestimate the advantage of good UX. With ChatGPT, I need to copy the text into a premade prompt or pick a GPT made to improve my writing. But, the writing style may not match what I want. Going back and forth with chat instructions is slow.

With Grammarly, I write the text, then click on the suggestions and adapt the style. It's orders of magnitude faster.

That's, to me, the Achilles heel of LLM chats: a specialized UI is more effective.

So, there is room for competition in many areas, even if they use the same LLM APIs to implement it.

Re: Grammarly Announces Layoffs

#15

As I read it I cringed expecting him to call their employees “grammarians.” But it was even worse: “grammarlians.”

The company is called Grammarly, calling the employees "Grammarlians" would be the correct grammar. If the company was Grammar, then the right term would be "Grammarians".

I see what you did there...

Re: Grammarly Announces Layoffs

#16

I think this is one of the casualties of ChatGPT and LLMs. They can do grammar and a whole lot of other things all for about the same priced subscription as Grammarly.

I’ve both ChatGPT Premium and Grammarly Premium. If I have to choose to keep one subscription, that will be Grammarly. ChatGPT can do many things, and it’s impressive at generating text. But, people underestimate the advantage of good UX. With ChatGPT, I need to copy the text into a premade prompt or pick a GPT made to improve my writing. But, the writing style may not match what I want. Going back and forth with cha…

You don't use ChatGPT to do your grammar.. there's more than just hypetool

Re: Grammarly Announces Layoffs

#17

I think this is one of the casualties of ChatGPT and LLMs. They can do grammar and a whole lot of other things all for about the same priced subscription as Grammarly.

Wouldn't the hallucination problem be an issue for LLM's?

I guess at least in Grammarly you can be sure it is correct.

Re: Grammarly Announces Layoffs

#19

One of the most annoying companies that ad spams like crazy in 2020/2021. i literally had to beg them to stop sending ads my way. Now they are running out of money and have to cut staff. How ironic!

What do you mean by "sending ads your way" and how did you 'literally beg them to stop'?

Re: Grammarly Announces Layoffs

#20

One of the most annoying companies that ad spams like crazy in 2020/2021. i literally had to beg them to stop sending ads my way. Now they are running out of money and have to cut staff. How ironic!

If Grammarly had any idea how loudly I advise people not to entrust their data to Grammarly, I imagine they would regret the surely hundreds or thousands of dollars they spent showing me Grammarly ads.

Until I discovered the magic of uBlock, a visit to YouTube always prompted a blizzard of Grammarly ads. I could never understand the premise of these clips, in which native speakers of English - specifically, university students and young white-collar workers - were shown having to use the software to help them to write emails.

Protip: if you spent nearly two decades in full-time education but somehow remain unable to construct a proper written sentence in your native language... your parents should ask for their money back.

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