[mistermann]

One big problem would be that in open office environments there would be a lot of noise. I wonder if some sort of active noise cancellation could be introduced so the voices of your co-workers could be ~completely canceled out if you are wearing special headphones?

[throwaway4aday]

When I consider my own LLM workflow the amount of time reading/listening/thinking outweighs the amount of time spent typing/speaking. If that's any indication of how a fully fledged conversational workflow would work then I think open plan offices wouldn't be a lot louder than they currently are. Depending on how quickly agentic LLMs are developed I'm not even sure we will be using offices the same way we are now. We might only need to meet or checkin with our coworkers and our LLM agents every few hours or once a day or maybe even longer in order to realign and check on results. Maybe we'll get occasional messages asking us to confirm something or provide clarification, I could honestly see most knowledge work evaporating and leaving behind only high level coordination, research and ideation.

Before that, I'm certain we'll all be spending a lot more time reviewing work, trying out prototypes and tweaking prompts or specifications than we do typing or talking.