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Can someone, anyone, tell me where it is that you work where input speed is the bottleneck in software development?
Because I have genuinely never worked at any company where the main thing holding up development was that developers weren’t typing fast enough.
When you're vibe coding, you need to narrate long prompts, including things like "And remember not to hallucinate or make any errors." All that is a lot faster to say than type.
Clearly, you're not vibe coding, and your job will be (checks notes) automated away by someone with a #grindset.
/s, in case that wasn't obvious.
If youre not using a custom instruction that brute forces different ways to try to get the other model not to fuck uo youre doing it wrong. If that doesn't work, add another llm into the pipe
Edit what is a token and why is my boss sending me angry emails
I was talking to an acquaintance and she was taking AI course.
She was taught to "validate" LLM infos by asking the same question in a different model.
This is an actual university course.
I was baffled. There is no guarantee that both models aren't wrong. But speaking to people that use LLMs, this is a common strategy.
Actually the tooling is such that you have that written in some kind of a rules file that will then more or less append the rules to the prompt so you wouldn't have to repeat it over and over.
At least I think that's how it works, I was only half listening to the mandatory AI training.
Once I was basically the only programmer on a huge project ("superstar"). One day I injured my hands from working too hard, and had to use assistive technologies.
The entire project ground to a halt, and management was on my ass all day every day about productivity. I even got a write-up and my bonus cancelled because I went from 3x output to 1.2x output (compared to my coworkers). Obviously I didn't stay long after that…
So yeah, if you're in that extremely niche type of situation, it probably matters. Creating an entire project by yourself kind of jobs. Actually, that tool looks extremely good for people who cannot use a mouse and keyboard for any reason. I would have used it. I didn't like speaking to my computer to write out code in an open plan office.
Edit: this was way before A.I., so I meant literally those voice commands. Change tab to x. Type: while, space, open parenthesis, true, close parenthesis, space, open bracket… my coworkers got annoyed.
That sounds horrible af. Hypercapitalism is so sad. You are treated like stock
It' easy to convince management it is
Unless they’re aware of The Mythical Man-Month
God how i wish anyone I worked with understood throwing bodies at every problem doesn't mean it gets fixed faster. On the the other end of problems, they don't understand a developer can't just start developing on immediately on complex application.
God being in project orient work is a pain.
Hang on. They had to ship three major updates in a single morning? How the hell is their workflow so bad that they have to- Oh yeah. Vibecoding.
If you see anyone wearing this shit, remember that you can laugh at how stupid they look as much as you want, and their weak copium that it's a "skill issue" will be swallowed by their copium mask. So you're free to laugh until they cry.
Hey - they can whisper entire codebases with it
()[]{}:!-_@#%*/;.
imagine trying to whisper these
open parentheses close parentheses open square bracket close square bracket open curly bracket close curly bracket colon exclamation point hyphen underscore at sign pound sign percent symbol asterisk forwardsl slash semicolon period
Wow I’m so efficient!
And all without a single junior dev in the open office hearing their genius. Aside from the junior dev who bought the fucking thing in the vain hope they could roleplay as a more competent employee. That junior dev can hear themself going "no, fuck, delete, how do I- no, stop typing, you stupid fucking thing", which I assume counts as "genius".
I genuinely can't distinguish between satire and reality anymore.
Yes, and it makes me tired
Input speed is basically never an issue for development work, as long as you have basic proficiency ...
Though this dipshit might be right that his coworkers who don't go all-in on LLM bullshit might get "automated" away, most managers literally don't care about the quality of their product as long as they can find some rube to buy it.
Except that you’re not entering code. You’re not even mapping out algorithms or data structures or reasoning about tradeoffs, as that’s for dirty-handed peasants. You’re constantly supervising and arguing with an army of industrious yet dim-witted sorcerers’ apprentices. Your voice is a lump hammer that you’re trying to hammer a large structure you’re above needing to understand into the shape it’s meant to be in, with each blow moving a lump randomly, and your mental capacity is fully occupied with forming and refining folk theories about how the mechanised idiots you command actually think.
I cringed so hard that I now require medical attention.
also what asinine dev team manager is "optimizing for output"??? that's like the worst idea. it's like judging carpenters by "most nails used".
asinine dev team manager
Elon Musk
God I hate companies using gamer slang. "Skill issue"
This is exactly the bullshit that is leading me to change careers
As someone who didn't even get to land a first job at programming yet, any advice? lol
Follow the industry trends, or at the bare minimum be able to speak "intelligently" about them. Management just LOVES buzzwords. It sucks, but that's the reality we have to deal with.
Focus on soft skills, not just technical skills.
Have a process to your thinking. Like a logical proof, show your work!
Leverage every tool you can for your job search.
Good luck.
You merely adopted being an incel. I was born in it!
This picture must be fake… there’s no way a developer has only one external monitor.
That's not a developer, that's a "minimalist" "digital nomad". He's 💊 AI-pilled and vibemaxxing💪. He's bringing forth multiple novel digital experiences with merely a whisper before you've even had your first piss in the morning. Every. Single. Day.
He doesn't actually need even the one monitor - that's purely a visual aid for the benefit of people like you so you know what's going on.
We need to start aggressively bullying and mocking adults that act like this openly and publicly. I was a skinny nerdy kid that got picked on constantly in high school. And even I think pricks like this need to have their self esteem and confidence shattered
They took away cubicles but everyone is on the phone all the time. So much noise they added a loud white noise machine. So like whats the point? I want the bane mask for calls so I feel like im cosplaying at work.
voice-dampening? as in, it moisturises your breath?
It makes you sound like the voice-over of a 90's, late night commercial for a phone sex number.
Keyboards are way more efficient than voice tho
For programming, yes, because the text is formatted, but not for plain English. The average person can easily speak 130 to 150 words per minute, but they certainly can't type that. If you personally can, then alright, that's cool. You're maybe more efficient with a keyboard.
And regardless of your opinion on it (or mine) vibe-coding is plain English, so what they're saying is true for that one use case. Besides, they can use both. The keyboard is still there.
This comment was written using speech-to-text.
Does the 130-150wpm number include thinking? I don't think I ever speak that fast even when I'm retelling material I know very well to my juniors, because even that requires thinking while talking to convey the information logically and consistently.
what i find interesting is that this app superwhisper is just AI speech to text, mostly based on local open weights models like whisper (though also giving access to proprietary cloud-only models). they're charging a subscription for text to speech. and it's all for the sake of slopcoding faster. amazing. if you haven't seen someone use speech to text to slopcode, look up videos of people sincerely using AI to slopcode, it's incredible how the paths of software engineering diverged.
edit: and of course the main bottleneck when having an AI do shit isn't the talking, it's the AI actually doing the stuff that by far takes the longest.
edit again: i missed the free plan, oops. still, a speech to text subscription is ridiculous.
You joke, but I read a LinkedIn post the other day where someone said that they had "fully switched to voice prompted AI work" and asked "are you still typing in 2026?"
Something something that guy that buys way too much golf shit and still loses the game.
I hope this is fake because I dont think I will be able to survive this weird world.
Programming seems like a uniquely awful use case for this.
Saying "function open bracket close bracket open brace carriage return tab print open bracket quote hello quote close bracket semicolon carriage return space space space space print open bracket quote world quote close bracket semicolon carriage return close brace carriage return" seems much more cumbersome than just pressing the buttons and typing it manually.
Its for vibe coding ten volume length instructions and then walking away after pressing enter
I don't want to wear the gimp mask.
I would rather wear a gimp mask. Less embarrassing.
And we still can’t have offices?
