Muzzle the tech bros
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2026
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Wearing a surgical mask to protect others is tyrannical, but wearing this fucking muzzle to maximize profits for your corpo overlords is freedom. Get it right!
The keyboard era is officially over
They're dreaming of keyboards being taken off the market entirely one day when this goes mainstream, and I'm imagining trying to play a video game going "W, W, W, A, A, S, S, W, W SPACEBAR, W SPACEBAR GOD DAMNIT I DIED AGAIN I can't even get past the tutorial on this shitty game"
All I can think of is this:
"If we can just get Arno to say 'Hohokus'' into a microphone, we have won already!" — Penn Jillette
https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/labscam.html
Truly, the most fitting word to end the keyboard era.
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They overestimate my ability to speak clearly.
As an ESL speaker, I don't entirely trust speech recognition, because it is wonky with all of our weird foreign accents (much like it's wonky with all of the fine native accents, go figure).
Just keep that in mind when this stuff inevitably gets outsourced to... wherever.
Oh and if you ship several updates in a single morning, something is very wrong. Where are the testers? Where's the review? Don't say they're even less present than usual?
Just look at how crap Google's autosubtitling is on YouTube.
I uploaded my first video to Peertube earlier this year and it got the captions 100% correct iirc and this was just me filming someone at a trade show on my phone. Freaking Peertube has better speech recognition than google.
Oh and if you ship several updates in a single morning, something is very wrong. Where are the testers? Where’s the review?
This is either naked outright bullshit or he's confusing shipped code with code check-in.
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WOULDNT it better to type it, its not like people are saying thier codes out loud.
I can't even get Google voice to recognize when I day a single sentence properly 90% of the day. And that isn't an exaggeration.
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I bet those things must stink like hell. No way they wash them out
In what world it's faster to talk than to type?
Given we have court stenographers who need to use a very specific keyboard, months of training and can STILL be overwhelmed by too rapid of a speech pattern - our world?
Try to outrun a court stenographer using a text-to-speech program.
A trained court stenographer can 225 to 360 words per minute. This guy, optimistically, claims he can do 150.
The hurdle there is comprehending multiple speakers with different backgrounds fast enough. Typing that fast isn't unrealistic if it's your own thoughts you're putting out.
2 reasons : first there are multiple speakers, second speech contains a lot of words that could be optimized away in a prompt but matter for courts. My voice prompts are so dirty and unclear compared to well thought, text ones
Nah thats nothing alike. Have you tried dictating things as notes or instructions? It's impossible to beat even average typing speed.
Anything structured and thought out, sure. But vibecoding, tokenmaxxing or just waffling out some unfinished thought is faster and more comfortable when spoken. See the rise of voice notes over texts
Still uncomvinced even if you're vomiting just random vibe code thoughts you'd still be slower via voice than via text. I dont see how this device would ever be successful for this niche.
You must be typing faster than me.
Anyway, not condoning or supporting any of this, but those muzzles would be nice on the train for those people recording their voice notes (and are listening to them on speaker)
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Vibe coding means he's just whispering 'claude, generate a function to take input from grok api and pipeline it to user input' instead of typing. Or something. Idk, I don't code.
But how is whispering the prompt better than typing the prompt?
Unless all their employees are functionally toddlers in regard to typing
But how is whispering the prompt better than typing the prompt?
Cause LLM handles the part of actually 'writing' the code with all the nitty-gritties. You just prompt it what you want in a couple of lines and chill waiting for the output. 🤷♂️
There are horror stories about it now.
https://uxdesign.cc/its-all-fun-and-games-until-your-boss-starts-vibe-coding-106283e98347
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Individual offices -> cubicles -> open space -> now this -> soon back to offices?
It's absurdly hilarious how many "good practices" the LLM assistance wave has ushered (back) in, from proper code comments and documentation, to the notion that being able to think out loud without distracting your coworkers might actually be productive.
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Because we wouldn't want inexperienced devs to learn from their senior coworkers...
If you're vibe coding most of your work, you're almost certainly not a senior dev.
Yeah, there's a lot of unhinged stuff in this post, but that was the wildest to me. The junior isn't taking your 'genius' away, if they hear it. The opposite would be the case, because it sharpens your mind when you get to explain the nitty-gritty to someone with a new perspective.
You wouldn't believe the efficiencies once integrated automated peptide and food injection
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I love how this ad is an apologia whose explicit premise is that you will lose the respect of your colleagues, but they’ll be fired and you won’t so their opinion shouldn’t matter to you. Was this written by Dwight from The Office?
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How fucking slow is your coffee maker
It's also AI-powered
So many var names with the uuuuuuuhhhh prefix
Uhuhhh sed -i slash var slash fucking delete delete delete piece of shit god dammit stop typing what i'm fucking saying
My code would look like this:
if{x>0}
positivecountplusplus;
no, not that, I mean positivecountplusplus;
No! I mean increment positivecount;
NO! Erase, stop typing all that;
Erase last four lines;
FUCK!;
{endif}
I can only assume they're saying prompts for vibevoded slop, not trying to write actual code verbally.
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I don't think there's enough oxygen in that mask.