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Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

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Post by TheRealPomax »

zlwaterfield wrote: post #99
TheRealPomax wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it work in "not a browser" though? Because that's the last place I need this, I really want this in Typora, VS Code, etc. instead.

Not right now. Looking into a mac app. This was just a quick and dirty first go at it.

Makes sense. Strongly hope it won't be a "mac app" but a cross-platform application instead though, nothing worse than having a great mac app that you can't use 50% of the time because your work computer's a mac and your personal computer's a windows machine because you like playing games.

Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

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Post by mdaniel »

charlie0 wrote: post #137
Technetium wrote: post #125

They proclaim "privacy-respecting" but all your keystrokes go to OpenAI. Horrific and genuinely upsetting. Edit: The author replied to another comment that there is an intent to add local AI. If that is the plan, then fix the wording until it can actually be considered privacy-respecting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41579144

Lol, this was my second thought immediately after my first, which was one of excitement. Hope the author does add a option for local. Wonder how that would work as a Chrome extension. Doesn't seem like a good idea for extensions to be accessing local resources though.

> Doesn't seem like a good idea for extensions to be accessing local resources though.

To the best of my knowledge all localhost connections are exempt from CORS and that's in fact how the 1Password extension communicates with the desktop app. I'd bet Bitwarden and KeePassXC behave similarly

Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

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Post by funshed »

aDyslecticCrow wrote: post #140

Grammarly is a lifesaver for my day-to-day writing. All it does is correct spelling and punctuation or give rephrase suggestions. But Grammarly does it so unreasonably well that nothing else compares. Grammarly's core functionality is not even LLM-based; it's older than that. Recently, they've crammed in some LLM features that I don't care a snoot about compared to its core functionality. This tool, like any other "G…

Absolutely! Being dyslexic, Grammarly is much more than the AI tool that was recently added, which is great, too.

Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

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Post by ichik »

bukacdan wrote: post #113
ichik wrote: post #71

For me the huge part of Grammarly's magic is that it's not just in the browser, but in any text input on desktop with their desktop app (with some exceptions). Having it only in only in one application just doesn't cut it, especially since it's not my browser of choice. Are there any plans regarding desktop integration. Linux is woefully underserved in this space with all major offerings (Grammarly, Languagetool) hav…

I have developed a system-wide writing assistant like you're describing. By design, it has no exceptions to where it works. Currently, it's only for Mac, but I'm working on an Electron version too (though it's quite challenging). Check out https://steerapp.ai/

Is the Electron version supposed to be available on Linux? I see only mentions of Windows on the website.

Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

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Post by spmurrayzzz »

Tepix wrote: post #142
dartos wrote: post #123

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FWIW I’ve found local models to be essentially useless for coding tasks.

Really? Maybe your models are too small?

The premier open weight models don't even comparatively perform well on the public benchmarks compared to frontier models. And that's assuming at least some degree of benchmark contamination for the open weight models.

While I don't think they're completely useless (though its close), calling them fantastic replacements feels like an egregious overstatement of their value.

EDIT: Also wanted to note that I think this becomes as much an expectations-setting exercise as it is evaluation on raw programming performance. Some people are incredibly impressed by the ability to assist in building simple web apps, others not so much. Experience will vary across that continuum.

Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

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Post by zja »

robertlagrant wrote: post #144
latexr wrote: post #74

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> How do you propose to get into the underlying structure of the OpenAPI API? The fact that you can’t is the point of the comment. You could get into the underlying structure of other things , like the C interpreter of a scripting language.

But what about the microcode inside the CPU?

That tends to not be open source, and people don’t claim that it is.

Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

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Post by compootr »

pkhamre wrote: post #73
compootr wrote: post #4

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how much does it cost in a normal day?

What is a normal day?

like what he's spending on average.

Maybe sending some emails, writing or proofreading some docs -- what you'd do in a business day

Re: Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly

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Post by Eisenstein »

Technetium wrote: post #125

They proclaim "privacy-respecting" but all your keystrokes go to OpenAI. Horrific and genuinely upsetting. Edit: The author replied to another comment that there is an intent to add local AI. If that is the plan, then fix the wording until it can actually be considered privacy-respecting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41579144

Download koboldcpp and llama3.1 gguf weights, use it with the llama3 completions adapter.

Edit the 'background.js' file in the extension and replace the openAI endpoint with

'http://your.local.ip.addr:5001/v1/chat/completions'

Set anything you want as an API key. Now you have a truly local version.

* https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/releases

* https://huggingface.co/bartowski/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct-...

* https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp/blob/concedo/kcpp_ada...

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