[59nadir]

I lost about 50% functionality in my hands in 2018-2019 and couldn't type more than an hour or so per day, what really saved me was dictation via Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and for coding I used dragonfly to create programming grammars. I'm happy for this guy for finding a solution but LLMs (in this shape) were late to the party.

[wahnfrieden]

Were you as fast dictating code (not just outputting it, but navigating, editing, refactoring etc.) as you were before needing it? If it was slower, then LLM assistance is significant in making such disability no longer an impairment for the job.

[59nadir]

Once you get into it it's not any slower than typing; if anything I think you can actually be faster with a good enough grammar, and it's precise too.

The problem I had eventually was that dictating all day is itself something that wears you out, so you get hoarse and honestly a bit more tired from it when you do it too much.

But no, overall a good Dragonfly grammar should be something that keeps you at least up to par with your typing speed.