I have been using Wispr Flow for quite a few days now. What I have noticed is that it's just so much less effort to type, but what I type, or what I am trying to say, is no longer as information-dense. This is somewhat of a similar curve that I felt when the world moved to Slack from emails.

With emails, you'd have to be deliberate about what you write, and most of the time it was pretty information-dense. It was efficient communication, vis-a-vis someone was putting in some thought on what to type and how to format it. What is the best way to get my point across? Also, it was not very ad hoc, so you can choose to read those communications later.

Once we moved to the world of Slack, or basically the world of IM, because sending a message is so cheap and you are guaranteed to almost always get a response, that is what the culture has been set to - most of the time. I found myself just sending a message; what could have been an email is now five IMs. Basically, each of the five sentences are five IMs. They are not thought through; there is no effort from my side to make it the most efficient. The pros of making it immediate were thought to counteract the con of making it information-sparse. I saw was a creeping drop in standards of how efficient the communication can be.

In all fairness, Wispr Flow is the best technology I have used in quite a bit of time. Maybe just next to Claude code; Claude code is still something which is very esoteric and it is just for engineers, and cloud co-work is just coming out, etc., but this feels much more generic, something where finally AI can be used for a net good of the world. Those big things aside, what I found is that it's giving rise to a similar information-sparse(r) style of comms. My instinct now is to just say or type whatever I am thinking as thats so easy to do with wispflow.

Since I am not typing by hand, I am not reading it, I am not refining it. I no longer have the intuition or intent to make it better. Basically, the first draft is the best draft; the first draft is a good enough draft; let it be. In some sense, it is close to what a sense of a stream of consciousness kind of typing is, and I guess it has its places. It has its places for very short and curt communications, but that is not how I use it as of now. In fact, I am just using this to write this blog post.

Even at this point, let's see, I think this is the new world we are doing to typing, what iPhones did to photography, where everyone could basically take a photo and Instagram came up, vis-a-vis the previous age where it was pretty hard to get a good photo. If you compare it to the even the age before, where we had analog cameras and just getting a good photograph, where everything is visible and in focus itself was hard, this is the curve of technology everywhere. No point in being luddite about it. 
Date: 2026-02-26