Your fingers are the bottleneck.
I used to think voice-to-text was a gimmick. Something for people who couldn't be bothered to type. Then a colleague at work started whispering into a microphone at his desk, and I watched him write prompts faster than I could think them.
Here's what clicked: you're not dictating code. Brackets, indentation, semicolons, that stuff requires precision. But conversational prompts to an AI agent? That's different. The agent handles your "umms" and pauses. It corrects your spelling. It catches your meaning even when you're rambling.
My grandfather was doing this 30 years ago. I watched him read Pinocchio passages to Dragon NaturallySpeaking in 1997, training it to understand his voice. Now I'm doing the same thing, except the AI actually understands me.
This reminds me of when I learned touch-typing at university. Someone said using all ten fingers was a must. I thought it was pointless. Months of boring drills. But 15 years later? Massive dividends.
Voice-to-text is the same. It feels silly at first. Awkward. Then you realize you can whisper prompts in a noisy office and the AI catches everything. Your thoughts flow faster than your fingers ever could.
The 1% improvement principle from Atomic Habits applies here. Small changes that seem pointless compound into something massive over 5, 10, 15 years.
I wrote the notes for my latest article in 30 minutes using voice. Typing would have taken hours.
What's your 1%? What small change could you make today that compounds over a decade?
Full article: https://cloudnativeengineer.substack.com/p/ultimate-vibe-coding
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