The headline of this post is taken from this thin article on how AI is making the voice interface more prominent.

But it also could have been from used in thought pieces a almost a decade ago as Amazon Alexa rolled across the landscape.

Or maybe a decade before that.

You get the idea.

Inarguably, AI is making voice a more common interface, but this latest hypecycle seems more driven by the idea that developers are talking to their computers to code. And they are only doing that because they’re able to work remotely, usually alone in a room.

Thinking this is the future of how people engage with digital products is how design will be replaced by those very same computers.

Design needs to consider more than just the immediate interactions the product demands, but also about where those interactions take place.

And you can’t do that talking to yourself.