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I don't mind red and blue squigglies under words. It's presenting a passive information channel in a mellow way, and frees me to do things like look away from what I'm typing while I'm typing it, and then be able to later find (most) my spelling errors at a quick glance. To me, that feels like a reasonably appropriate division of labor.

On the other hand, my phone's autocorrect is a nuisance. It's constantly trying to inappropriately switch "it's" and "its" or "their" and "they're", especially when it's the first word of the sentence and the algorithm has absolutely no way of knowing how the sentence will unroll. That's a distraction that has the opposite effect. It makes a greater demand on my attention by forcing me to watch my typing like a hawk to make sure autocorrect isn't inserting errors.

>>mumble+(OP)
I'm also REALLY not a fan of the grammar recommendations where it suggests edits "for clarity" while subtly shifting the meaning. Unfortunately, I think the reccomendations will become self-fulfilling: By forcing people to converge on a certain style of very simple grammatical constructions in standard writing tools, that WILL become a de-facto standard and deviating from it will make your writing less familiar and less clear.

>>mumble+(OP)
I run a personal LanguageTool server and love it.