This past weekend, Claude — besides increasing its context window to a million tokens — released speech mode for both Claude Code (hold space to talk in the terminal) and the Mac app (Cmd+G). It's a big deal, and here's why.
January 5th
On January 5th, I had a moment. On Monday I was one version of Jonathan Tushman. By Tuesday I was different. Two things drove that shift:
2. Started talking to my computer
Since that Tuesday, I haven't gone back to typing as my primary input. Every single day, I talk to my machine.
If you walk by my office, you'll see me having long-form conversations with my computer. Kicking off work streams. Starting projects. In meetings, Claude is a third participant in the room — we talk to it out loud, ask it to summarize, challenge our thinking.
Claude's new speech features are great and getting better. For those who want something higher fidelity right now, I strongly recommend Superwhisper. It uses NVIDIA's open-source Parakeet model, runs entirely locally (nothing goes to the cloud), and it's been absolutely amazing.
Change Your Input Modality
Here's my ask: as you're going through your own shift in how you work with AI tools like Claude Code, don't stop at changing your code workflow — change your input modality too. Start talking to your machine.
Yes, it's going to feel weird. You'll be sitting in your office alone, talking out loud to a computer. Give it a few days. Once you get past that initial awkwardness, you won't go back.
This is as big of a deal as Claude Code itself.