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Dave Morin: Voice input is replacing typing to meet AI context demands

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Investor Dave Morin explains on More or Less why tech workers are increasingly using wearable microphones to dictate rich prompts to AI models instead of typing.

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“Your hands can only type so fast and it's just more context per second, right? That you can input into the computer. And I think that's the big change here is that the models want more context to do a better job for you. And so we are shifting our way that we're interfacing with the computer to match the capability of the computer.”

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