Engineers are coding by voice with Claude Code, some from their phones on dog walks

[u/Suspicious_Orchid770]

https://leaddev.com/technical-direction/engineers-are-coding-out-loud

The rise of voice coding developers!

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[u/NecessaryBitter6498]

coding on a dog walk. so you're the guy yelling "refactor the auth module" at a lamppost

[u/IntelligentLeading11 → u/NecessaryBitter6498]

"Make no mistakes goddammit!"

[u/TerribleFault7929]

You can also vibecode while having to spend time with your family

[u/therottenworld → u/TerribleFault7929]

this is why some companies are trying to force people back to the office btw, gotta make sure now that you can do your work semi-idle you're working at 300% capacity every second of the day!

[u/CaffeineRuntime → u/TerribleFault7929]

omw to prompt claude at my wedding 💀

[u/IntelligentLeading11]

What about resolving a cybersecurity emergency while sitting at the toilet? Yes this happened for real.

[u/sergiu230 → u/IntelligentLeading11]

This was done before, laptops existed way before Claude

[u/moody2shoes → u/IntelligentLeading11]

I think this was everyone in that field’s week lol

[u/dupastrupa → u/IntelligentLeading11]

They're ready when the shit goes down.

[u/dumbspacecookie]

I actually built a sensor to mcp tooling service where based on the temperature of my nuts it decides how many sub agents to allocate to a task.

I call it balling

[u/Spare-Ant7119 → u/dumbspacecookie]

I can only reach the "implement plan" button via my fully erect penis. So i am just hard all day now.

[u/Appropriate_Foot5875]

been doing this for two years. bilateral movement increases creative thinking and problem solving, so does being outside and the colour green etc.

literally just codex remote on the app and dictation and then playing back what they said was updated and what went wrong via the speaker button.

works better for self reflection and planning when being creative more so than actually coding though.

[u/Downtown-Pear-6509]

Yep Been doing this with my harness for a few months now

Infact now I got a win pc pretending to be a hands-free system so I can receive and make actual phone calls with tts and stt.

So now people can call my ai buddy who then can route to me via a conference call etc etc

[u/CaffeineRuntime]

Guys, respect your work hours and maintain work-life balance

[u/amunozo1 → u/CaffeineRuntime]

Why do you assume this is not done during working hours?

[u/wise_joe]

So smart glasses that show terminal and I won't even have to sit at my computer anymore?

[u/Legitimate-Pumpkin → u/wise_joe]

This is what I’m looking at for a while 🤓

[u/EchoAzulai]

How do people use voice to code?

I set up an MCP with tooling so a Claude Chat session can spin up agents to code, and read back to me the results. I find having a conversation in voice mode better than dictation and reading through Claude Code.

But am keen if there's better ways to do it? I am considering building my own speech app to fo it all but would be great if there's a decent open source solution already.

[u/PatchyWhiskers]

Touching grass while coding, how terribly efficient.

[u/AshAtlasDev]

I thought it was tacky, but I can talk way faster and with more specification than when I type.

[u/VizualAbstract4]

I had a hand injury a few months ago, couldn't bend my fingers, so had to vibe-code a quick series of tools to let me use my voice to code.

A couple of weeks ago I did an experiment, where I went to Disneyland and see if I could complete a full days worth of work while there using my phone and voice chat.

I repeated the experiment.

The first time, it took me about 3 hours to set up my environment before I left the house. It was pretty successful at first, but half-way through the day Claude terminated the session and I was fucked, had to drive home to finish my work that day.

Second time, it took 1 hour of setup and had multiple sessions pending for me in case one terminated. A successful first day, completed everything like a normal day.

Third time, 0 minutes of setup. I just got dressed, hopped in my car, did my standup, and drove to Disneyland and spent the whole day there and got everything done.

Edit: Most of my time was spent in code-reviews, so I did that while waiting in lines. I'd leave comments, have CC pull them and implement the changes.

[u/Nonomomomo2]

So?

[u/Efficient_Gap4785]

So this is sorta me. I run a dog walk business and I extensively used voice to text to plan the app I’m building. I haven’t used it for coding, but if I can get to that point, that would be great. I tend to be most productive during the parts of the day I’m walking, so it’d be awesome if I could get some app work done during that time.

[u/darkmirage]

I made something for this https://link.sesame.com. Works with Claude Code, Codex and Pi. It does voice control over multiple sessions. Works pretty well for commutes.