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
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