Twitter thread on "preventing frustration"

Found this awesome Twitter thread by Ken Kocienda while reading about iPhone keyboard complaints in Hacker News.

"This gets back to the idea of preventing frustration. I determined that it would be more frustrating to have autocorrection “guess wrong” and erroneously fix broken typing."

Read the full thread. It is great, including the constallation algortihm idea.

I made the first autocorrection for the iPhone. I last worked on it more than 10 years ago, and it’s changed a lot since then. People still blame me, complain to me, say it’s gotten worse, tell me they want my old code to be restored, etc. Here’s the thing: My code was simple. https://t.co/DOUkPco9q5

— Ken Kocienda (@kocienda) September 1, 2022