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Let's get this out of the way;

My biggest issue with AI writing apps is they strip away the tone and character of writing.

Imagine two people send you an email. They both include the phrase "Let's connect and align on this".

Out of context, how would you identify who said that?

 As opposed to "Let's meet for a working lunch (So we're both still paid on the clock) and go over paperwork," or "See me at 2 PM to revisit the project".

Companies could save a lot of time and money on "team-building events" if the vice grip of professionalism in written communication was locked in the basement. You can be professional and authentic without being inappropriate - or you can be the same as everybody else.

 But meanwhile, we have many tools to help proofread your writing - Something I don't mind AI doing.

Steer (Product Hunt) is described as ''a native macOS utility that allows users to quickly fix and iterate their writing in any app or website.''

Also for people like myself who can only use half of their Mac OS Keyboard because the battery has swollen to the point it keeps pressing A and E if I did not use Karabiner Elements to disable them in the BIOS.

Creator Vojtěch Böhm did not expect people to use it as a "Parse my gibberish" tool, but that's exactly why I'm here.

 I have to update this Mac because Steer wasn't designed to work with an OS this old. Apparently it hasn't been in use since late 2022, which makes sense, as I received another one in early 2023.

It wouldn't update to anything newer than 11.7.10, so I had to get creative and install a MacOS Montery version from Apple's Content Delivery Service (and I checked the whois record before downloading, you can never be too sure).

And now, months later in December 2024, they have a Windows app I downloaded to try. Their branding and angle have changed. It focuses more on presenting Steer as an app to help non-native speakers of a language to sound more polished in their target language. That's an admirable goal.



 

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