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Continuing my newsletter about agentic coding:

https://www.agenticcodingweekly.com/

I built this [1] for myself so that I can comment lgtm in PR comments with an ASCII art. Pretty silly but fun.

[1]: LGTM ASCII Art as a Service - https://lgtms.app/

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sending nohello website [1] back to people who just say hello without additional context is a classic solution

[1] https://nohello.net/en/

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Based on both performance vs price charts, it seems using Opus 4.8 with med effort is almost a better choice than using Sonnet 5 at xhigh effort

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These are the price changes mentioned in the article:

Macs

  MacBook Neo: $699 (up from $599)
  13-inch MacBook Air: $1,299 (up from $1,099)
  15-inch MacBook Air: $1,499 (up from $1,299)
  M5 MacBook Pro: $1,999 (up from $1,699)
  M5 Pro MacBook Pro: $2,499 (up from $2,199)
  M5 Max MacBook Pro: $4,099 (up from $3,599)
  iMac: $1,499 (up from $1,299)
  M4 Max Mac Studio: $2,499 (up from $1,999)
  M3 Ultra Mac Studio: $5,299 (up from $3,999)

iPads

  iPad: $449 (up from $349)
  11-inch iPad Air: $749 (up from $599)
  13-inch iPad Air: $949 (up from $749)
  11-inch iPad Pro: $1,199 (up from $999)
  13-inch iPad Pro: $1,499 (up from $1,299)
  iPad mini: $599 (up from $499)

More products:

  Apple TV 4K: $199 (up from $129)
  HomePod: $349 (up from $299)
  HomePod mini: $129 (up from $99)
  Vision Pro: $3,699 (up from $3,499)

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I am big fan of VoiceInk which is also local and open-source. I also maintain this list of all the best open-source ones in this awesome-style GitHub repo. People looking for open-source dictation tools, hope you find something that works for you here: https://github.com/primaprashant/awesome-voice-typing

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Well, there is no IDE in antigravity 2.0

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Open-source STT apps are plenty and just as good. Pick one from this list:

https://github.com/primaprashant/awesome-voice-typing

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I’d say STT is pretty much a solved problem. Everyday there is a new product and can be one-shotted by any current top of the line LLMs. Take a look at this [1]. Apple is just stuck in the past.

https://github.com/primaprashant/awesome-voice-typing

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Looks like it. Found this:

> On June 18, 2026, Gemini CLI and Gemini Code Assist IDE extensions will stop serving requests for Google AI Pro and Ultra, as well as those using it free of charge using Gemini Code Assist for individuals.

https://developers.googleblog.com/an-important-update-transi...

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So Spark is cloud hosted openclaw?

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While SWE-bench Verified is not a perfect benchmark for coding, AFAIK, this is the first open-weights model that has crossed the threshold of 80% score on this by scoring 80.6%.

Back in Nov 2025, Opus 4.5 (80.9%) was the first proprietary model to do so.

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I've been using speech-to-text tools every day now especially for dictating detailed prompts to LLMs and coding agents. I personally use VoiceInk which is open-source.

I tried to look for what other solutions are available and I've collected all the best open-source ones in this awesome-style GitHub repo. Hope you find something that works for you!

https://github.com/primaprashant/awesome-voice-typing

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I love using (tiling) window managers, and one of the most important requirements for me is having a key binding for switching to the last active workspace. The proposed solution in the blog doesn't achieve this. I use Aerospace on macOS right now and think it's the best solution available.

I generally have fixed workspaces for different things: first for a browser, second for a code editor, third for a terminal, and so on. If I want to switch between the browser and code editor, I can do that with a single key binding, usually Alt+Tab. The same binding lets me switch between the code editor and terminal just as easily.

When you have something like 10 different workspaces, not having this key binding becomes annoying. If you need to alternate between windows on workspace one and workspace eight, you're stuck using both hands to press Control+1 and then Control+8. But with a last-active-workspace key binding, you can just Alt+Tab between them. This is the killer feature I always need.

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For me personally, it's not really about typing speed. While I can type pretty fast and most likely I speak faster than typing, but typing and dictating are just different way of doing things for me. While the end result of both is same, but for me it's just like different way of doing things and it's not a competition between the two.

I regularly just sit down and often just describe whatever I'm trying to do in detail and I speak out loud my entire thought process and what kind of trade-offs I'm thinking, all the concerns and any other edge cases and patterns I have in my mind. I just prefer to speak out loud all of those. I regularly speak out loud for 5 to 10 minutes while sometimes taking some breaks in between as well to think through things.

I am not doing it just for vibe coding, I'm using it for everything. So obviously for driving coding agents, but also for in general, describing my thoughts for brainstorming or having some kind of like a critique session with LLMs for my ideas and thoughts. So for everything, I'm just using dictation.

One other benefit I think for me personally is that since I'm interacting with coding agents and in general LLMs a lot again and again every day, I end up giving much more context and details if I'm speaking out loud compared to typing. Sometimes I might feel a little bit lazy to type one or two extra sentences. But while speaking, I don't really have that kind of friction.

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Speech-to-text has become integral part of my dev flow especially for dictating detailed prompts to LLMs and coding agents.

I have collected the best open-source voice typing tools categorized by platform in this awesome-style GitHub repo. Hope you all find this useful!

https://github.com/primaprashant/awesome-voice-typing

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Author here. My argument is: we give instructions to coding agents dozens of times a day. Over time, speaking those instructions naturally tends to produce more detailed context than typing them out, because the friction of typing makes you abbreviate.

I've been using VoiceInk on macOS for a few months now. The workflow is just: hold shortcut, speak, release, text appears at cursor and works in terminal, editor, chat, wherever.

The post covers Handy, Whispering, VoiceInk, OpenWhispr, and FluidVoice. All open-source, all do local transcription, all paste directly into the active window. The differences are mostly platform support, model selection, and how much extra stuff (AI post-processing, voice-activated mode, etc.) they add.

Happy to answer questions about any of these or about the voice-typing-for-agents workflow in general.

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I've found RTK CLI proxy [1] quite useful for reducing token usage

[1]: https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk/

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I encourage everyone to use speech-to-text tools to give detailed context to coding agents. As a developer, I love my keyboard and I can understand if you're skeptical. I was too. But using speech-to-text is one of the high-leverage things you can do as a developer.

We all know LLMs work better when given more context and clear instructions. When you're working with coding agents, you're giving instructions to them multiple times a day, every day. Over time, you end up giving much better instructions and detailed context if you use speech-to-text compared to manually typing all those instructions all the time.

There are tons of open source and proprietary products for speech-to-text which offer inference on local machine or on cloud. So I put together a curated list of 30+ open-source tools across Linux, macOS, Windows, Android, and iOS. Most support offline recognition. Pick whatever you find suitable, but I definitely recommend giving speech-to-text a try for your LLM workflows. And if you're skeptical, give it a week and then re-evaluate.

https://github.com/primaprashant/awesome-voice-typing

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I picked India and a random year, 1985 [1]. The number 3 song caught my eye cause it had the thumbnail of a famous movie that came out in 2004, although the correct song played. When I went to the linked Spotify playlist for that year, the included song at number 3 was wrong and linked to the song from the 2004 movie.

Not sure what the data source is, but needs a little bit of cleaning and validation. Not critiquing, this project is awesome, just giving a heads up.

[1]: https://88mph.fm/in/1985

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