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Building Proofed in public
I'm Lucas — a backend dev building an offline grammar checker for iPhone. No cloud, no accounts, just Apple's on-device AI. This is where I document the process: technical decisions, mistakes, and everything in between.
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How Apple Foundation Models actually work for grammar checking
I dug into the Foundation Models framework to figure out what it can and can't do for a grammar app. Here's what I found.
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Day 0: Why I'm building an offline grammar checker
I pasted a sensitive email into Grammarly and then immediately felt sick about it. That's why I'm building Proofed.
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