Marc Klingen@marcklingenMay 30, 2025
This is definitely a "the future is here but it's not evenly distributed" moment.
Everyone who is talking a lot to their computer has started to see the likely evolution of user-facing computing through this lens:
- Talking is faster than typing.
- LLMs are shockingly good at pulling useful context and actions out of natural human speech.
- As you get used to talking to computers, you make small adjustments that make the LLMs/scaffolding work even better for you.
- We will invent a new, foundational set of voice-first, multimodal UX patterns over the next few years.
To some extent, interest in voice UX is self-selecting. If it works for you, you keep doing it. But much more, I think, you're either living in the future and are starting to get a sense of the UX that comes along with this platform shift. Or you're not.
If you're not, you're saying things like "I don't really want to talk to a computer." (Yet. You will.) Or, it's too noisy, what about the office environment? (As @MarcKlingen says, here, sales teams solved this a long time ago.)
Marc Klingen@marcklingenConsidering buying acoustic panels so we can talk more to cursor
Top eng offices will probably look like sales offices soon, no way typing is faster than talking for extensive context
