Re:Apple Keyboard has a blacklist of phrases you can't swipe
by tj-teej on Saturday November 07, 2026 @06:16PM
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The discussion here is really interesting, there's the engineering mindset that there's "right answers" to these kinds of questions. Find the answer within the spec and margins of error and that's correct.
But in reality, at least from what I see, there really can't be right answers to these questions, it's why the social sciences exist.
There isn't always a correct, provable answer for every challenge.
Power, influence, intentionality, coercion are just dimensions of the answer to the problem 'how do I make my autocorrect or keyboard-swiping tool work "correctly"', but that question is unanswerable.
Either you don't build the feature at all, or you accept that you can't do everything for everyone, debate, and consciously make a decision that you can defend.
But in reality, at least from what I see, there really can't be right answers to these questions, it's why the social sciences exist.
There isn't always a correct, provable answer for every challenge.
Power, influence, intentionality, coercion are just dimensions of the answer to the problem 'how do I make my autocorrect or keyboard-swiping tool work "correctly"', but that question is unanswerable.
Either you don't build the feature at all, or you accept that you can't do everything for everyone, debate, and consciously make a decision that you can defend.