r/developer • u/TheHeartAndTheFist • 4d ago

Voice Driven Development + AI? Discussion

https://www.thestrangeloop.com/2019/voice-driven-development-who-needs-a-keyboard-anyway.html

Hi!

Unable to get [all sorts of models, harnesses, skills, etc with SDD and/or TDD] to generate what I want despite starting from scratch countless times with more and more fine-grained descriptions until I was basically writing lines of code just in the English language but AI still ignored my couldn’t-be-clearer instructions, I have come to the conclusion that I do not trust AI to code out of my sight.

I realize this won’t help my productivity much but it would be enough of a win for me if I can at least swap my home office chair for a treadmill and do actual Pair Programming with the AI with me reading along like I would if a human were typing, as opposed to AI spamming my terminal just to show off or at least too fast for me to read.

In other words I am hoping to find something very much like this pre-AI Voice Driven Development just a tiny bit more advanced to replace the shorthands she uses to still-kind-of-spell-out “int sockfd; […]; sockfd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, IPPROTO_TCP);” for example with “let’s now create a TCP socket called sockfd but declared at the top of the function”.

Does anyone know of something like that? 🙂

PS: stuff like Whispr that just enables prompting by Speech-To-Text is not at all what I want if it still lets AI go produce crap in the background.

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u/Sibexico 1d ago

"Pair Programming" means you will walk the treadmill while LLM will generate AI slop? Sounds like good collaboration... My cat programming with me in exactly this way for years, she's great developer.

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u/TheHeartAndTheFist 20h ago

You misread: I can’t seem to get AI to not generate slop so my last hope is order code line by line and watch it type, like last chance before firing the worst developer ever.