Asking this as a curious outsider who knows very little about software. Why is this a recent innovation? Auto-correct seems like an obvious problem the software community should have solved years ago. Perhaps there's a lot of technical complexity here. What am I missing?
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A true but perhaps unhelpful answer: it doesn’t exist in most APIs because no one implemented it. A perhaps more useful answer: broadly speaking, most APIs are bespoke software systems. This layer is built from ground up, rather than being built on a common, robust foundation.
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How about going full
@phabricator and just assuming anything with an edit distance of 1 is the "British spelling" and pressing on?

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there was a rails plugin which, at runtime, would autocorrect misspelled methods
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Next step: DWIM.
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Reminds me of the aptly named mod_speling in Apache
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This feature is implemented using Ruby's built-in DidYouMean::SpellChecker.https://github.com/ruby/did_you_mean …
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Yeah, how was this a micro-ship? I thought it was pretty huge. Also, I'm totally not reading work slack/mail, because of micro-humans *ahem*.
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Did you mean “Mo money mo problems?”
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