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by DarrenDev 83 days ago
Canva - I used it for simple designs but ChatGPT is better

Grammarly - ChatGPT and Claude are way better, and much more customizable. If I were a human editor I'd be very worried.

On the flip side, using ChatGPT for diagrams made me pay for Mermaid. It might only be a one year subscription.

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> If I were a human editor I'd be very worried.

Proofreaders, perhaps. But spellcheckers are superior, free, battle-tested, and ubiquitous anyway, yet people still can't be troubled to use them. As proof, behold comments on any given HN post.

True, LLMs can convert style — but so far I've found that the edits always pick up an LLM smell.

My pet hypothesis is that genuine upper-echelon writing, editing, and taste-making will become even more valuable than before.

what does it mean to pay for mermaid