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Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
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Re: Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
#52IMO 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.
> It will tell me to remove a comma one hour, and then tell me to add it back the next.
So just like English teachers I see
Re: Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
#53Would be nice if they had a website where you could demo/test it before downloading extensions and stuff. Their firefox extension opens to this page https://writewithharper.com/install-browser-extension but when you paste in anything more than a few paragraphs the highlighting is all messed up.
Re: Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
#54I never understood the appeal of grammar tools. If you have reached the minimum professional/academic level needed to be designated to write something, shouldn't you at least be capable of verifying its semantic "correctness" just by reading through it once yourself? Why would you pass a writing job to someone who isn't 100% fluent in the language and then make up for it by buying complex tools?
Have you considered that some people aren’t 100% fluent in English but still competent?
Re: Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
#55Who is the target market is for Grammarly? Working professionals who speak English as a second language?
Re: Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
#56Who is the target market is for Grammarly? Working professionals who speak English as a second language?
People who haven't heard of LLMs
Re: Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
#57Slightly controversial compared to other comments here but I haven't used Grammerly at all since LLMs came out. Even a 4B local LLM is good enough to rephrase all forms of text and fix most grammer mistakes.
I think a lot of value comes by integrating with a language server and/or browser extensions.
Do you have a setup where this is possible or do you copy paste between text fields? (Genuine question. I’d love to use a local LLM integrating with an LSP).
Re: Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
#58I would much rather check my writing against grammatical rules that are hard coded in an open source program—meaning that I can change them—than ones that I imagine would be subject to prompt fiddling or worse; implicitly hard coded in a tangle of training data that the LLM would draw from. The Neovim configuration for the LSP looks neat: https://writewithharper.com/docs/integrations/neovim The whole thing seems cool…
You would lose out on evolution of language.
Re: Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
#59"For most documents, Harper can serve up suggestions in under 10ms." 10l is OK. 10kg as well. Why is 10ms wrong?
Re: Harper – an open-source alternative to Grammarly
#60I'm a long-time Grammarly user. I just tried Harper, and it simply performs very poorly. It is a good initiative, but I don't feel the current state of this software to be worthwhile.