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I wish some of my colleagues would use this for teleconferences
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!
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.
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.
I hate it because it’s generally intensely US-centric. Not understanding non-US accents or terms.
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.
Maybe this was designed for illiterate coders.
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.
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…
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
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.
Anyone needs handmade wooden furniture?
Because that’s what i’m going to be switching careers to if that trend comes to my place.
Woodworking is surprisingly popular among tech folk. It seems some hobbies just click better for techies. Bouldering is another example.
Sewing/designing clothes really clicked for me. Haven’t tried woodworking, but I imagine it scratches the same itch and utilizes similar skills: 90% of sewing is just planning, calculation, and measuring. Then, watch everything just fit together into place
Exactly like programming! /s
Never hesitate to rescue wooden pallets, but don’t waste gas on retrieving them either. You can use an iron railroad tie as a chisel for dismantling them
Use a keyboard ya filthy casuals
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
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?
Mouth breathers hate this device.
The masks all cover your nose too
Oh dang. Yes the photo does indicate that, I see now.
It’s lazy enough to vibe code, but when you’re too lazy to even type a prompt…sheeeesh
Back in the day there used to be specialized equipment for this purpose called an office, of which you had your own and could close the door to
That’s for management though, the lackeys are kept in cubicles, or the isocubes if they misbehave.
Now is oriffice 😔
Started hating working in tech a year ago and got out.
What’d you move to?
Retired and living from investments. I’m 51 so was working in tech for a long time.
Start investing if you aren’t.
Lol you think stocks will be worth shit in 20 years? This fish is going belly up and the AI IPOs are about to steal all of our retirememt funds (if you even had any).
Anyone 30 and younger knows this shit is temporary at best and collapse is within our life times.
Anyone 30 or younger has their entire brain filled with social media programming and fear. :)
The entire idea is to make you scared of saving, you dummy. I mean that in a funny way. You should never make decisions based on what social media is telling you. Social media is programming, gossip, big headlines… Building on news. Who owns the news? Billionaries. Who owns the platforms? Billionaries.
They’re not gonna steal it for long because they themselves will tank soon from all the overvaluation. They may bring about the collapse.
You know, this “soon collapse is coming” has been said since 2019.
In my opinion, the fear of collapse is exactly what they want you to feel, so you don’t make any money from the dystopian build-out.
But they are making money on it. Oh yes. Stocks go up because huge investment bankers are buying all the stocks they are telling you to be afraid of in the news.
You can sit and have no stocks and lose no money if you want, but you are betting on a crash that you are being told will happen “soon”… :) We will see. Chances are, you miss making a lot of money on this and afterwards, you will feel a bit sad you missed it.
I have been, but I sure wasn’t in tech… never made even $75k any year in my whole life. Maybe I could harness AI to change that…
This is such a Kafkaesque cyberpunk dystopian problem. This is needed because owners and managers want open offices for surveillance and coat cutting. They are also aware that only about half of workers thrive in those environments while the other have drops in productivity. Solution a cheap muzzle so that the workers who aren’t as productive in noisy environments aren’t disturbed.
Meanwhile could you imagine the smell of those things. You’d have to wash them everyday or have some kind of cover for them not to just have a permanent funk.
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.
