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If only there was some sort of device that would allow you to input those commands without interfering with others, or vice versa… But it’s probably just a dream…
Use a keyboard ya filthy casuals
I just cannot tell if this is satire or not
Welcome to clown world!
Mate they could just type out the prompt instead of dictating with the vader mask.
Techbros will have workers do anything but work from home.
Or have single-person offices instead of an open space
You will love the Open Space Farm.
You mean cubicles?
Now I gotta rewatch Severance!No!
So typing isn’t fast enough to burn all the daily tokens?
The faster you burn them the sooner you knock off for the day.
the faster you burn them the sooner you burnout
Automate it
Have all chatbots you have access to talk to each other through each other to try to solve the problem
“knock off for the day?” Not until you’ve trained your replacement (LLM)! Then you can take all the time you like, income-free
If I’m being forced to spend AI tokens up in a day I’m spending the rest job hunting.
if you talk AND type you can burn twice the tokens and get the same result! it’s a win win win
Have you seen people type? Toich-typing is a lost artform.
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They don’t even have to do that. Just don’t pack them in like sardines.
Most type faster than they speak, no?
No.
You’d think so, given how most modern vibe coders talk. But no, they’re so bad at typing, they can’t do either!
Isn’t it cheaper and quieter to just type out your prompts?
This is akin to people who have conversations on speakerphone in public places.
Maybe this was designed for illiterate coders.
you assume that vibe-coders can actually touch type. or type at all.
I assumed they were all working from their iphones
Or be capable of critical thinking.
AI needs to measure the level of confidence in your voice, to calibrate its bullshit accordingly
I wonder if anyone owns a patent on this idea.
Speaking is faster than typing, I guess?
Maybe for Eminem.
Older people such as myself tend to hate voice-to-text I think because it was so awful in the past. And if you screwed up with it in the past it was a less understandable excuse that “I was using voice-to-text.” And because we were all forced in some way to learn to type well.
Voice to text works a little bit better now. And I think younger people know everyone else uses it and to forgive when it screws up.
Voice to text is better for you now than it was in the past? I remember in 2014 voice to text worked great for me. Now it hardly ever works.
It worked better five years ago before they replaced the existing algorithms with AI bullshit. Keeps adding slurs to my dictionary too since they replaced keyboard prediction with modern AI and so many people use slurs Google just assumes I do too.
I hate it because it’s generally intensely US-centric. Not understanding non-US accents or terms.
apparently audio and images are more efficient compared to text for multimodal models?
I’m going to need significant levels of convincing. Computers have always preferred specificity and accuracy, it’s half the reason I’m in my current position (MSP Escalations/level 3, half of my success at fixing issues is being extremely specific in looking up exact error messages instead of paraphrasing).
This isn’t a defense of AI; on the contrary, it’s my doubt that AI can read intentions/inflection/emotion better than just writing out what you actually want.
Deepseek recently published a paper in which they describe that vision tokens contain more information than text tokens and that this can be used to compress context.
We present DeepSeek-OCR as an initial investigation into the feasibility of compressing long contexts via optical 2D mapping.
Experiments show that when the number of text tokens is within 10 times that of vision tokens (i.e., a compression ratio < 10×), the model can achieve decoding (OCR) precision of 97%. Even at a compression ratio of 20×, the OCR accuracy still remains at about 60%. This shows considerable promise for research areas such as historical long-context compression and memory forgetting mechanisms in LLMs.
It reminds me of LLM caveman speak, it used to have another option to use Chinese instead of English. A language like Chinese is seemingly better at encoding information in fewer tokens and I think this is the same mechanism why OCR tokens work so well.
That said, I also doubt that voice messages are more efficient than text prompts, but it’s best not to waste too much time engaging with these sorts of LinkedIn posts (and LinkedIn in general).
LLMs don’t need accuracy. This just boils down to speaking being faster than typing, especially if your thought isn’t fully formulated.
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As far as I know, these workflows typically involve a transcription model to convert the audio to text, and then passing the text to the model.
This looks uncomfortable and humiliating. Now if they were to make it in the form of a suppository…
You win best comment award on this thread. 🏆
If you’re brave enough, anything can become a suppository.
Cap here. The product is called vocal dampener and used by singers during warmup
Every husband here is sad for all those years he didn’t knew these existed. Mothers and teachers wonder if these are available in kid-sizes. Kids wonder what glue works on both this device and the teachers skin.
Why not give them private offices? If AI is increasing productivity and replacing workers they should have enough space left.
in this one picture, I see generations of so many individual great ideas coalescing into one fantastically bad idea (and stupidly comical consequence) that is so… bizarre that I can both simultaneously understand why nobody really saw it coming, and am in low-key disbelief that this is even real…
I mean, that’s a steno mask, and anyone who’s had issues with hand pain but wants to communicate via text has probably wished for something resembling this. The problem is that they’re obnoxiously expensive. (And they look ridiculous, but that’s its own issue.)
When I’m in public, I wish people had these. I neither need nor want to listen to your phone conversations.
Their price is so dumb, that thing shouldn’t cost that much
Just like those accessibility tools that let you use control the mouse pointer using only your mouth etc etc, they have stupid prices when some aren’t even that complex
They’re a niche product that has a very solid use case (court transcripts). They require far less training than a stenotype, but because they’re so niche, the people who do make them can more-or-less charge what they want. If we’re being less skeptical, the low demand means the manufacturers can’t take advantage of the efficiencies of scale, so the price remains high.
of course it’s not, because every laptop and airpod has
noise cancellinginput isolationBut as far as rage bait goes, top tier
I think this is a microphone with noise isolation, rather than noise cancelation from speakers.
Thanks, edited for meaning
A noise cancelling microphone isn’t a terrible invention though.
I’ve seen those things 10 years ago when somebody was helping a deaf student in university. Used one of those things to talk to a text to speech engine during the lecture. Seemed to work quite well.
I’ve also seen them on court stenographers and thought they looked cool. Not everyone needs every invention, though.
Thats true this is just the absolute worst use case scenario i can think of
They suck, you can’t get air into them without destroying the noise cancelling part so you’ve got to constantly be taking it off to take a breath / running out of oxygen mid sentence
Mouth breathers hate this device.
The masks all cover your nose too
Oh dang. Yes the photo does indicate that, I see now.
You talk with your nose?
Your nose in in the mask. It’s extremely hard to make a seal around your lips that doesn’t include the nose
You don’t have allergies or colds?
Is typing THAT hard?
When you need a nannybot? Yes.
It’s lazy enough to vibe code, but when you’re too lazy to even type a prompt…sheeeesh
Hook it up to a bong and you’ve suddenly made work a hell of a lot more interesting.
I was gonna fill mine with oatmeal and chow down, but I think there’s some good work we can do putting both our minds together on this one.
Oatbong?
The real vibe coding
I love the implication that he’s speaking to the AI and wants to not disturb people, but has no headphones on. so I can only assume it’s responding from the speakers.
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Yes, I know it could be responding over text instead of voice.
Which I think it is even more funny, why not just type them if is not a full audio back and forth.
Because it’s faster to speak than type, but reading is more practical than listening, especially if taking information is your main focus.
It’s scannable, easier to read and reread selectively important parts, and listening to code is not useful.
