How will our work settings change as we spend more time interacting with computers? A recent feature in the Wall Street Journal explores the growing popularity of dictation apps like Wispr and what that means for office etiquette, especially now that they can connect to vibecoding tools.
One venture capitalist said that visiting a startup’s office feels like walking into a high-end call center. Gusto co-founder Edward Kim also told his team that in the future, offices will “look more like sales floors.” (As someone who still bears the scars from when my desk was briefly relocated to a sales floor, let me say, “Oh no.”)
Kim claimed that she now only types when absolutely necessary. But he acknowledged that constantly dictating in an office can be “a little awkward.”
Similarly, AI entrepreneur Molly Amkraut-Müller said she was frustrated by her husband’s new habit of whispering into the computer, so she had to sit apart or “one of us stayed in the office” for late-night work.
But Wispr founder Tanai Kothari insisted that someday this will all become “normal”, just as spending hours staring at a mobile phone has become normal.
