{"id":3412,"date":"2026-08-19T21:21:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T01:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/?p=3412"},"modified":"2026-09-04T12:25:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T16:25:44","slug":"why-i-type-to-llms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/2026\/08\/19\/why-i-type-to-llms\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I type to LLMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re using LLM agents for your data science tasks, you may feel like you&#8217;re the bottleneck. Agents are computationally superior and fast, but if you&#8217;re doing serious work, they&#8217;re nowhere near autonomous. They need supervision.<\/p>\n<p>To keep up with the pace, you may have added a monitor or two, and turned to speech-to-text to speed up your inputs.<\/p>\n<p>I did both, but my experiment with speech-to-text was short-lived.<\/p>\n<p>Writing is a form of thinking. When I gave up writing for the fool&#8217;s gold of efficiency, I also gave up thinking. So it didn&#8217;t work out for me. I was quick to get back to typing.<\/p>\n<p>After all, \u201cwriting is Nature\u2019s way of showing you how sloppy your thinking is.\u201d \u2014 Dick Guindon<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/08\/19\/magazine\/ai-dictation-app-wispr.html?unlocked_article_code=1.61A.jxvu.NKT-VdXxJ8VQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This article<\/a> details a NYT author&#8217;s experiment with Wispr, a popular speech-to-text app. It resonated with my experience and prompted this post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re using LLM agents for your data science tasks, you may feel like you&#8217;re the bottleneck. Agents are computationally superior and fast, but if you&#8217;re doing serious work, they&#8217;re nowhere near autonomous. They need supervision. To keep up with the pace, you may have added a monitor or two, and turned to speech-to-text to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions\/3413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}