How will work arrangements change if we spend more and more time talking at our computers? a fresh feature in the wall street journal Looks at the growing popularity of dictation apps like Vibe, especially now that they can be linked to Vibe coding tools, and what that could mean for office etiquette.
One VC said visiting startup offices now feels like stepping into a high-end call center. And Gusto co-founder Edward Kim Apparently he’s telling his team that in the future, offices will look more like “sales floors.” (Since someone is still hurt from that time his desk was briefly moved to the sales floor, let me say: Oh no.)
Kim claimed that he now types only when absolutely necessary. But he acknowledged that constantly ordering things in the office can be “a little weird.”
Similarly, AI entrepreneur Molly Mkrout Mueller said her husband had become annoyed by her new habit of whispering at their computer, so their late-night work sessions now involve sitting apart, or “one of us will be in our office.”
But Wispr founder Tanay Kothari insists that all this will one day feel “normal”, just as spending hours on your phone has become normal.
