The problem: typing is the bottleneck, not thinking
When you're in a good flow state, the slowest part of working with AI coding agents (Cursor, Codex, Copilot, etc.) is typing the prompt. You know what you want — you just have to get it into words fast enough that the idea doesn't evaporate.
Speaking is ~3x faster than typing for most people. AiType turns that spoken idea into a clean, polished prompt in ~250ms — fast enough that your flow state isn't interrupted.
Where developers use AiType
🤖 Cursor / Codex / Copilot prompts
Hold the shortcut, describe the task or feature in plain English, release. AiType delivers a clean prompt directly to your clipboard. Paste into the agent chat, press Enter.
📝 Commit messages
After making changes, hold the shortcut and describe what you changed and why. Paste the result into git commit -m "...". Much faster than writing the message from scratch, and the AI cleanup keeps it professional.
🔀 PR descriptions
Open the PR form, hold the shortcut, talk through the change, what it fixes, and any testing notes. Paste. Done in 30 seconds instead of 5 minutes.
🐛 Bug reports and issue descriptions
Reproduce a bug, then speak the reproduction steps and observed vs expected behaviour while it's fresh. AI cleanup formats it into coherent paragraphs.
💬 Code comments and docstrings
Position your cursor above a function, hold the shortcut, describe what the function does. The cleaned text is paste-ready as a comment or docstring.
📧 Technical emails and Slack messages
Any written communication that requires thought but not code. Architecture decisions, incident summaries, onboarding notes, RFC drafts.
Example: dictating a Cursor prompt
"um so the API is returning 429s when we hit the rate limit um the client is not handling that correctly it just crashes uh I need you to add retry logic with exponential backoff up to three retries and a max delay of 30 seconds"
# AiType output (~250ms later):
The API is returning 429s when we hit the rate limit, and the client isn't handling that correctly — it just crashes. Add retry logic with exponential backoff, up to 3 retries, with a max delay of 30 seconds.
That's a usable Cursor prompt. The original spoken version had filler words, run-on structure, and inconsistent tense. AiType cleaned all of it automatically.
Works in every editor and tool
AiType runs at the OS level, not inside a specific app. The shortcut works in:
- Cursor, VS Code, JetBrains IDEs
- Terminal / shell (for commit messages, inline comments)
- GitHub.com, GitLab, Linear, Jira (in the browser)
- Slack, Discord, Notion, Confluence
- Any other app with a text field on Mac or Windows
The macro workflow: speak while you think
The most powerful developer pattern is narrating while you work. As you debug, speak what you're seeing. As you design a feature, speak the tradeoffs. Use AiType to capture these narrations into the agent prompt, the commit, or the PR. The thinking cost is near zero because you're already thinking — you're just capturing it.
Try it for one week
Most developers who switch to speaking their prompts and commit messages find they can't go back to typing them. The 14-day trial is enough time to form the habit — and it's free, no credit card required.
Download AiType for Mac or Windows
Installs in 2 minutes. Shortcut works in every editor on day one.