Does talking to your AI assistant actually speed up your coding workflow?
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There’s a weird mental shift that happens when you switch from typing prompts to speaking them. When I write I naturally trim everything down to save effort, which usually gives the AI too little context and leads to messy code output.
When I talk I ramble through the logic, and the results are honestly way more accurate. The only awkward part is doing it in a shared office space without feeling like a lunatic.
Has anyone else made voice dictation a core part of their daily build cycle or does it still feel more like a novelty?
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It feels fast until an assistant hands you a fix and a test to prove it works. Revert the fix and the test still passes, because it never touched the actual failure mode. You don't save time when you spend the difference auditing whether green means anything.
i think the rambling is the point. typing makes you edit yourself before you’ve finished thinking. but i'm also thinking about if we're talking too much in one sitting and give the agent too much info to take into account, would that limit its reasoning ability or would that actually helps...
curious if anyone splits it: voice for the messy part (framing the problem), typing for the precise part (the actual fix)?