[ffsm8]

I am still missing something like Claude code that's less "hands-off" and optimizes for small edits instead of full feature development

Like you're sitting in your ide, select a few rows, press (for example) caps lock to activate speech and then just say a short line what it should adjust or similar - which is then staged for the next adjustments to be done with the same UX

Like saying "okay, I need a new usecase here, let's start by making a function to do y. [Function appears] great, we need to wire with object into it [point at class] [LLM backtracking code path via language server until it finds it and passes things through]

The main blocking issue to that UX would likely be the speed of the response, as the transcription would be pretty much instant, but the coding prompt after would still take a few moments to be good... And such an interactive approach would feel a lot better with speed.

Too bad nobody seems to target the combined mouse+voice control for LLMs yet. It would even double as a fantastic accessibility tool for people suffering from various typing related issues

[nsm]

Aider has an ide mode close to this. Check out https://nikhilism.com/post/2026/nudge-skill/ to add similar behavior to certain agents. I too, am waiting for IDEs to do this in a polished way. next tab edit is not quite it

[jmalicki]

In cursor you highlight and hit Ctrl-L, and use the voice prompting - I can do this today!

[devin]

The level of exposition required for a lot of edits you might want to make is what stops this from being a primary method of interaction. If I have to express >= AND <= AND NOT == OR ... then I may as well write the thing myself.

[8note]

the big problem with tools like that is that the agent can read all the existing code and docs when asked, but it cant read your mind.

its always going to do better if you give it a stronger description of the problem, and give it some more freedom on the solution.

if youre sitting more in the solution side, youre going to be dictating those exact functions because theres not enough context for it to just know what the right function you need is