Assuming this is a real post and not satire, my best guess is that they don’t think it’s a bottleneck, but still believe a way to talk to the computer without disturbing others in the office is useful. Like if Tide detergent said it would save your marriage – they don’t think it really will, but the ad is humourous and likely to gain attention because of it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Assuming this is a real post and not satire, my best guess is that they don’t think it’s a bottleneck, but still believe a way to talk to the computer without disturbing others in the office is useful. Like if Tide detergent said it would save your marriage – they don’t think it really will, but the ad is humourous and likely to gain attention because of it.
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.
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.
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.
Wondering if those AI trainers know every character you put in that file is another token they’re paying for
I’ve definitely had coworkers with injuries for whom typing was absolutely not a speedy input.
Companies (garbage ones) where they measure “productivity” by AI token use, number of code commits, or lines of code written.
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.