The subject changes. The standard persists.
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Publishing professionals have more than one reason to hate AI—they are legion. AI is not only consuming our jobs like Galactus eating the universe, it is consigning our parallel structures, literary devices, and complex punctuation to the bargain basement of writing. This makes us bitter. Yesterday, I made my reining in of Claude's flowery AI... Continue Reading →
So, I asked Claude if I could make a skill in it to transfer to Copilot because my company is really pushing Copilot. In the short time that I've been assessing what AI can do for our editing team, I've figured out that Claude can do quite a bit for us. But, as usual, Microsoft... Continue Reading →
My first deliberate use of AI came a year or so ago at work, when the company decided to push the use of Copilot, which Microsoft introduced almost as a novelty through their unsubtle infiltration and saturation of the market. Copilot evokes a power-mad Clippy on steroids constantly getting in the way of your cursor,... Continue Reading →
So, why GitHub? What does GitHub have to do with these text editors I've been going on about? What is GitHub, even? Well, actually, it all starts with Git. Git is what ordinary people with Word files with names like project_v7_final_final.docx don't know they wish they had. Unfortunately, Git can't do what it does on... Continue Reading →
I loved Atom. I really did. But, for all that I am a copyeditor and proofreader, I can't catch my own errors for the life of me. And, no amount of fiddling behind the scenes could get Atom's spell check to work on my Mac. It worked on the crashy Linux box, but not on... Continue Reading →