By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026I've been telling spellcheckers to fuck off since I learned to type. If you aren't a good writer, spellcheckers are *dangerous*, and the more "advanced" the spellchecker is, the more dangerous it is. 24/ 1442
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026A few of my collaborators insist that I use Office 365's AI-enabled version of Word to work on documents with them. It's *maddening*. I estimate the ratio of good suggestions to bad ones that M365 insists on shoving into my face at about 1:100. It's practically unusable. 25/ 1679
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026It's so bad that I often copy the block of text we're working on into a text editor, make my changes, then paste it back into the Word window. If I were to accept even 10% of these suggestions, my work would be made *significantly* worse. 26/ 2492
