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"I dictate into Cursor prompts — it's brilliant"

A senior software engineer at a major tech company shares how AiType became the interface layer between his brain and every AI tool he uses.

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Background

K. is a senior software engineer at a major technology company in the Bay Area. He works primarily in a Cursor-heavy workflow — writing, reviewing, and iterating on code with Claude and GPT-4o as pair programmers throughout the day.

"My job in 2026 is basically prompt engineering," he says. "I spend 4–6 hours a day writing prompts to Cursor, Claude, and internal tools. The quality of the prompt determines the quality of the output."

He started using AiType six months ago, initially just for Slack messages. Within two weeks, he was using it for every prompt he wrote.

"The prompts I dictate are better than the prompts I type. I don't know exactly why — maybe speaking forces me to be more articulate — but the AI output quality improved when I switched to dictated prompts."
— Senior Software Engineer, Bay Area CA

The workflow

His workflow is simple. In Cursor, he clicks the prompt field. Then:

  1. Hold Right Option
  2. Speak the prompt — describing what he wants, why, what constraints matter
  3. Release
  4. AiType pastes the cleaned-up, structured prompt
  5. Hit Enter

"The total time from 'I need to ask Claude something' to 'Claude is working on it' is about 5–8 seconds. It used to take 30–90 seconds to type a proper prompt."

# What he says (rough, with false starts):
"um, can you refactor the auth middleware to uh use the new token validation library, uh keeping backward compat for the old tokens for now, and make sure you add tests"

# What AiType pastes:
"Refactor the auth middleware to use the new token validation library. Maintain backward compatibility with the old token format for now. Add tests for both code paths."

Why the AI cleanup matters for prompts

"When I type a prompt, I tend to write the way I think — streaming consciousness, shortcuts, assumptions. When I dictate, the AI cleanup forces structure: it removes filler, adds punctuation, breaks run-ons. The result is a prompt that a language model can parse much more cleanly."

He's noticed measurably better first-attempt success rates on Cursor tasks since switching: "I can't prove it scientifically, but I'd estimate 20–30% fewer follow-up correction prompts."

"AiType is the missing interface layer between human thought and AI tools. Typing is too slow and too lossy for how fast AI moves now."
— Senior Software Engineer, Bay Area CA

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