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Would it be rude to recommend a grammar checker? The topic and supporting arguments for the post are fine (if a little disorganized, but that's common for blog posts). I just found the run-ons a bit distracting.
Otherwise, I agree that the internet is getting shittier. More ads, more walls to defend against scraping, less accessibility, etc. There's no real metric for how well a page presents its contents, only metrics for specific things like load times, layout shift, and so on. I also suspect that, over time, page scoring will shift toward which sites present the data in ways that are more usable by LLMs.
English isn't my mother tongue, and I do use a basic spell checker. But I have a gut feel that this isn't the topic. What do you mean by grammar checker?
There are a few tools out there that can recommend improvements to grammar. For example, a tool might suggest rewriting:
to:
Many of them are now LLM-based, so you could probably just ask a locally-running Qwen3.5 or something for advice as well. Just be careful if you do this to constrain it only to grammar suggestions and not allow it to rewrite your article (LLM-speak is easy to spot).
Somewhat often the LLM makes the text sterile, and removes some of the weird flair I like to use. But it was almost a year ago last time I used for this. I’ll try again.