"never" schmever. I never ramble unrestrained either. Deciding not to edit at all is a skill either way. If you just want the equivalent of voice in a normal way, you remove backspace and that's it.

> Have you tried the voice-based prompting, as I'm describing?

I've never prompted a thing. I can just see your distinction is nonsense. If you think it's hard you're doing it wrong.

And wow I did that post without revising a thing. Wow.

Right. So the crux of the issue here is you have no experience with what's being discussed, while I do.

Sheesh, imagine thinking you choose not to rewind time and "edit" the speech that has already come out of your mouth lmao.

I'm doing it right now you goober! Stop calling it hard!

What experience do you insist I'm lacking in something I'm doing right now?

Maybe you lost the thread, but this is a conversation about using dictation (specifically modern dictation tools like Whisper derivatives) to prompt coding agents.

Do you think it suddenly becomes harder to avoid backspace when you're in a different text box?

The thing you're claiming is hard, writing exactly the way you would speak, is not hard.

There's also some additional benefit to going with the flow and not thinking about words much before saying them, but that's equally hard with text or voice.

You just said like two comments ago you have no experience with this. Not sure why you keep acting like you do.

I hadn't before. Then I started doing it just to show how easy it was.

It doesn't matter what text box you're typing in. The ability to type as you'd speak is easy. Without any extra delays or issues.

I hope you're not trying to argue that typing the same way into an AI prompt is harder than doing it into HN. It's just not hard in any situation. Voice isn't special.

You are struggling to hold the thread, I'm afraid. Have a good night!

I see. You've fallen into some weird pedantry to think what I'm saying isn't relevant to your argument. I hope you figure out my very simple meaning later, have a good night too!

> You already correct yourself and revise your speech in an append-only rolling edit.

No, I think before I speak and say what I planned to say. What do you do, sir?

Cute snark but no you don't, nor does anyone else who speaks to you. People self-repair their speech in 10% to nearly 40% of speech turns. The upper end is for cognitively demanding communication but the lower bound is very normal.

Good evidence of my point though on how natural this is. People literally don't even notice it as either the listener or the speaker.

Even when a listener is told specifically to listen for and detect errors or self-repairs in speech, listeners will not even detect 50% to 80% of minor repairs. Your brain literally doesn't even perceive them.