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by atq2119 35 days ago
There's the adage that writing is thinking, but even more accurately at least for me, editing is thinking.

Neither typing speed nor dictation speed is a true bottleneck, but editing speech seems like it'd be harder than editing text.

Though there may be some hybrid approach that can work well.

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I suppose the idea is that the AI is going to do the "editing" for you (with all the consequences for "thinking" that implies).

You don't have to think about the design of your app. You just say what you want and the AI makes it appear. If you don't like something, you tell the AI to change it. You iterate live until you get the final result you want.

This is what writing docs has become for me. I have the agent make a draft, then tell it which sections to rewrite, combine, etc. I tell it the ideas I forgot to include. I manually make certain word choice changes. The question is how do you extend this flow to non-pure-text scenarios. For most people, just talking about what you see if probably the easiest.

> editing is thinking.

I hadn’t realized until just now how accurate that is for me as well. Thank you.