Behold the future of programming
(midwest.social)
Programmer HumorAnyone 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.
high end office headsets already have excellent isolation, wearing a muzzle is just a humiliation ritual.
So what is the real purpose? This product usage seems iffy at best. Trying to solve a problem that has been solved more efficiently tons of times.
It's evolution, baby
Lets assume AI can produce production ready code without any problems (this is what these CEOs likely believe anyway). Something that can produce thousands of lines of code per minute is not enough for these greedy fucks that now they want prompts given by speaking so that things move even faster?
I can type a lot faster than I can speak
The C-suite people got rich by (to be a little reductionist about it) telling other people what to do, and they can't imagine that everyone else wouldn't leap at the chance to do the same.
Most of them got rich by being born. Telling people what to do is just a fun pastime for them.
Company-issued slop muzzles
Or, listen me out, they could work from home.
Working from home doesn't appeal to the emotional needs of fragile managers.
It doesn't appeal to the emotional needs of a bunch of my colleagues who are in the office every day voluntarily either.
Yeah, I have colleagues who choose to work in the office when work from home is available because they like the separation of work from home, don't have a good spot to work from home, are aware they would be distracted at home, prefer to see other people in person, and a bunch of other reasons. At least they get a choice!
Every day I'm a little surprised there's no news story of some workers beating their "no, you have to come into the office" manager to death. They've got means, motive, and opportunity, and it's extra funny because if they'd been allowed to work at home they wouldn't have at least two of those.
But really we're ruled by the worst of us. Cowards and fools.
Maybe unionizing is safer than hitting the decision makers with an office chair while screaming "you made this possible" until they can't even cry anymore.
Well what I'm trying to tell you is that there are probably more people than you realise who want to be in the office. My partner, and a bunch of my coworkers, hated being forced to work from home during the pandemic. So maybe that's part of the reason.
Oh, I read your thing backwards then.
I can't imagine wanting to go into the office on the regular. The commute. The lost time (can math out to like a 20% pay cut, if you spend two hours a day traveling + getting ready). The sickness. The lack of control over environment (temperature, sound).
Can't relate to it. And I'm a very social person that likes interacting with people.
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
"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
I would rather do almost anything than talk to a device, except in very specific circumstances.
I set timers and play music on a smart speaker somewhat often.
Occasionally, when I am alone, know exactly what I want to say, and my hands are full, I might dictate a text message.
But other than that, I will not be talking to my device, thanks. The human voice is primarily for talking to other humans, with all the imprecision and uncertainty and emotional resonance that entails. Keyboards are great tools designed for precise computer input, and I would like to continue to use them.
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.
of course it’s not, because every laptop and airpod has ~~noise cancelling~~ input isolation
But 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
Did the CEOs unplug their keyboards? Wtf even is this?
Well the mask is a steno mask
Theoretically most people will speak faster than they type. You have to type around 180-200 wpm to be faster than speaking.
(I say theoretically, because usually typing speed ratings also ding you for errors, and uh, speech transcription isn’t really there, either.)
I'm not really into it but one of the guys on late night linux podcast, generally resistant to LLMs and shiny new things, is a fan of speech to text for general computing, as in every input field in the OS should support speech. In a recent episode he said that he believes it to be the way of the future.
I remember Dragon Speech saying the same thing in the 90's. It's improved, but not enough to make it useful as more than an aide for people who can't type. I do agree, that for simple accessibility, it should be integrated into every field, but I doubt it's ever going to take over.
As others have noted, that it's only technically true that dictation is faster than typing. In a practical sense, there's a fair number of reasons why that's not the case, including that usually thinking about the entry is what's the slowest, and also the errors in both are typically what slows people down.
there's also the problem of, for example, keeping entries confidential. You don't want to speak your passwords where others can hear you.
The hard part of both speech and typing is thinking about what you say. Typing nor speaking are going to change the speed I can get information into the computer.
Maybe we could ask the AI to do that thinking bit then tell us what to say.
Hey Siri, tell ChatGPT what it wants to hear to generate a million dollar code piece.
Does it come with a spit valve?
A water key* is needed in wind instruments because they have long tubing that is likely to be cold enough to condense water out of breath and which hence gets trapped inside it. Not applicable here.
zucc9000
Why stop at feeding? Where's the penis and vagina tubes? We might as well be jorkin' it too if all the rich and powerful are.
Alexa, play Spankfest 8.
It does mention “all the other tubes”. I wonder if it will be THX 1138 style.
I hope its like a Geigeresque device that makes us sit shrimp style and cups backwards from our gooches to our mouths.
Fuck AI, but if this was something those loud public phone people could wear that would be great. Like the dude shouting into his phone on the bus, pair it with some headphones leave us in peace
this would be useful for when I need to talk on the phone near others without disturbing them
I forget where I read it, but apparently this is being pushed to replace or augment court stenography. Apparently, there is more demand for court recorders than stenographers to fulfill (not sure if this is true, but that’s the claim), so this option is being proposed as the AI dictation requires less training than stenography.
It's a different tool, but for much the same end. I want to say it's more because the device is cheaper than a typical stenography machine would cost.
The furry mask, which was the style at the time.
"Ah, dang it, I showed up late and they're out of masks. I guess that means I'll have to use the voice-cancelling ball gag again..."
Please don’t show this to my boss.
So they know their products would be useless in a noisy environment? They can't pick out the voice they need like an actual human being can in a crowd (excluding some with hearing difficulties)?
Well, we've always known that the internet is a series of tubes.
Chat is this real?
