When you're vibe coding, you need to narrate long prompts, including things like "And remember not to hallucinate or make any errors." All that is a lot faster to say than type.

Clearly, you're not vibe coding, and your job will be (checks notes) automated away by someone with a #grindset.

/s, in case that wasn't obvious.

Once I was basically the only programmer on a huge project ("superstar"). One day I injured my hands from working too hard, and had to use assistive technologies.

The entire project ground to a halt, and management was on my ass all day every day about productivity. I even got a write-up and my bonus cancelled because I went from 3x output to 1.2x output (compared to my coworkers). Obviously I didn't stay long after that…

So yeah, if you're in that extremely niche type of situation, it probably matters. Creating an entire project by yourself kind of jobs. Actually, that tool looks extremely good for people who cannot use a mouse and keyboard for any reason. I would have used it. I didn't like speaking to my computer to write out code in an open plan office.

Edit: this was way before A.I., so I meant literally those voice commands. Change tab to x. Type: while, space, open parenthesis, true, close parenthesis, space, open bracket… my coworkers got annoyed.

It' easy to convince management it is

Assuming this is a real post and not satire, my best guess is that they don't think it's a bottleneck, but still believe a way to talk to the computer without disturbing others in the office is useful. Like if Tide detergent said it would save your marriage -- they don't think it really will, but the ad is humourous and likely to gain attention because of it.

Companies (garbage ones) where they measure "productivity" by AI token use, number of code commits, or lines of code written.

I’ve definitely had coworkers with injuries for whom typing was absolutely not a speedy input.