Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise

Re:Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making ... by chicagobuss on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:23PM (#50341201)

When I try talking for prompting my coding agents, I'm always severely disappointed with the specificity of the prompt. It's just much easier for me to "talk about" coding specifics with a keyboard than it is for me to speak about them, for some reason.

I suspect this has to do with the nature of the work you're doing; I dunno, just count me firmly in the camp of people who only rarely feel like I can express a thought sufficiently for coding agents with their voice.

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Re:Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making ... by sadilek on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:22PM (#50343145)

I guess it depends on how close to the code you want to work. I find that I lately talk only about the features and UX and can leave the coding details completely to the agent. That might not work in every project, but I suspect it might work more often than people think because it's hard to adapt to the quickly increasing capabilities of LLMs.

I think a good habit is: Try to make the agent fail at least once a week with a too ambitious request. This got surprisingly hard lately :)

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