{"slug": "ask-hn-has-your-typing-gotten-worse-with-ai", "title": "Ask HN: Has your typing gotten worse with AI?", "summary": "A Hacker News user reports that their typing skills have declined due to reliance on large language models (LLMs) that automatically correct typos and the use of text-to-speech for dictating prompts, which reduces manual typing practice.", "body_md": "| ||||||||||||||||\n1 point by |\nA general observation -- I have felt that my typing skills have declined, for two reasons.\n- LLMs can effortlessly pick up typos in my requests\n- And the next level beyond that is using TTS to ramble my prompts because the LLMs can capture my own personal chain of thought in greater detail.\nHow do others feel about this?\n| |||||||||||||||\nApplications are open till July 27. |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-has-your-typing-gotten-worse-with-ai", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49035464", "published_at": "2026-07-24 13:41:45+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-24 13:52:12.596552+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["large-language-models", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-has-your-typing-gotten-worse-with-ai", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-has-your-typing-gotten-worse-with-ai.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-has-your-typing-gotten-worse-with-ai.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ask-hn-has-your-typing-gotten-worse-with-ai.jsonld"}}