I genuinely don't know what my writing sounds like anymore

A few years ago I was juggling a bunch of projects – constant back and forth with PMs, designers, clients and actual design work in between calls. I didn’t have the bandwidth to write “correctly”. I'd reply in less than a minute, typos and all, and get right on to the next fire. Months later I’d read an old email and cringe at how rough it was, but nobody seemed to care at the time, or maybe I just never learned if they did.

These days half the tools I use every day have grammar checks and sentence help built in – Gmail, Slack, whatever I happen to be typing into. And somewhere along the way I started to trust them fully. I will type something, see it 'fixed' and send it without reading a word of it. I didn’t decide to proofread myself. It just kind of quietly stopped needing to be.

I honestly don't know if my writing improved or if I just stopped being the one to review it, which is a strange thing to notice in hindsight. They seem to be very different things but from the outside they probably look the same.

I’m curious what that has been like for other people who write a lot for work — has it changed how carefully you actually write, for better or worse, to lean on these tools? Or did it never really make any difference to you at all?"