HACKER Q&A
📣 amichail

Has AI made you stop caring about the intricacies of English grammar?


Why bother studying English grammar when you could just have AI correct your writing?


  👤 nonrandomstring Accepted Answer ✓
Why bother? Let Bill Hicks explain.....

  You know I've noticed a certain anti-intellectualism going around
  this country ever since around 1980, coincidentally enough. I was in
  Nashville, Tennessee last weekend and after the show I went to a
  waffle house and I'm sitting there and I'm eating and reading a
  book. I don't know anybody, I'm alone, I'm eating and I'm reading a
  book.  This waitress comes over to me (mocks chewing gum) 'what you
  readin' for?'...wow, I've never been asked that; not 'What am I
  reading', 'What am I reading for?' Well, goddamnit, you stumped
  me...I guess I read for a lot of reasons — the main one is so I
  don't end up being a fuckin' waffle waitress.  - Bill Hicks

👤 Cheyana
I’ve used it for work to write code to perform administrative tasks, but I draw the line at asking it to write anything, preferring my own way of expressing myself. My co-worker uses it with abandon however, and people are taking him less seriously now.

👤 cratermoon
If you can't be bothered to write well, I can't be bothered to read what AI wrote.

BTW people said this about spell checkers at one point. "Why bother learning to spell, the computer will fix it"

https://www.thoughtco.com/spell-checker-poem-by-mark-eckman-...

    I have a spelling checker
    It came with my PC
    It highlights for my review
    Mistakes I cannot sea.
    I ran this poem thru it
    I'm sure your pleased to no
    Its letter perfect in it's weigh
    My checker told me sew.

👤 dtgm92
Why bother anything when you could just have AI do it

👤 JohnFen
You only communicate in writing?