How will our work environments change if we spend more and more time talking to our computers? A recent feature in the Wall Street Journal looks at the growing popularity of dictation apps like Wispr and what this could mean for office etiquette, especially now that they can connect to the Vibe coding tool.
One VC said that visiting a startup office now feels like walking into a high-end call center. And Gusto co-founder Edward Kim seems to be telling his team that in the future, offices will have a “store-like feel.” (As someone who still has the scars from when I briefly moved my desk to the store, I say this: Oh, no.)
Mr. Kim claimed that he now types only when absolutely necessary. But he admitted that constantly dictating in the office was “just a little awkward.”
Similarly, AI entrepreneur Mollie Amkraut Mueller said she was so irritated by her husband’s new habit of whispering at the computer that they now sit apart from each other during late-night work hours, or “one of us will stay in the office.”
But Wispr founder Tanay Kothari insisted that one day this will all seem “normal”, just as staring at your phone for hours has become normal.
