Grammarly Announces Layoffs

[hustwindmaple1]

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!

[ocdtrekkie]

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.

[CyberDildonics]

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

[kwertyoowiyop]

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

[darth_avocado]

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".

[jonwest]

I've yet to encounter a cutesy name for an organization's employees that isn't cringey, but ooof, when it's used in layoffs it feels so tone deaf. I really wish the name fad would pass.

[xrd]

In Japanese, grammar is bumpou. I really wish they used that and called them bumpkins.

[c0balt]

The distance to gremlins is uncanny.

[RcouF1uZ4gsC]

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.

[diegof79]

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.

[roody15]

I have found the free version of ChatGPT does as good if not better than Grammarly. I honestly not sure if there is much of a future for this product over next year or two.

[jamil7]

LanguageTool has a free version and a self-hostable version.

[schnitzelstoat]

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

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

[nicbou]

Deepl Write is also rock solid and free.

[webninja]

Weird, they’ve been hiring all January.

[15457345234]

Announcing layoffs and pairing the announcement with something about AI appears to be a bit of a pattern at the moment. Something something psyop something something

[matrix12]

Common Lisp looses to LLMs again...

[harperlee]

Programming languages loses to application again... ?