One pattern I find useful for working with LLMs is a nice long ramble session. Sometimes the LLM needs more bits to understand what you're trying to achieve, but you're too lazy to type them. In these cases I like to lean back, switch to /voice and just ramble for like 10 minutes, total mess, anything goes, full stream of consciousness. Sometimes I declare it up top, something like "switching to speech recognition sorry for any typos...". Sometimes I turn it into a small interview of a few turns. But I find that the LLMs are somehow very good at reconstructing long incoherent rambles and often their echo of your own tangle of thoughts comes out quite a bit cleaner than what you started with. The result is that you improve the mind meld and have to correct things less from that point on.
Andrej Karpathy (post dated 2026-07-21) advocates a 'long ramble' session with…
Brief
Andrej Karpathy (2026-07-21) recommends leaning back and doing a ~10-minute voice ramble (/voice) — messy stream-of-consciousness or a brief interview — sometimes prefaced with 'switching to speech recognition.' He says LLMs often reconstruct that noise into a clearer echo, strengthening the mind-meld and cutting later corrections.
Why it matters
Andrej Karpathy (post dated 2026-07-21) advocates a 'long ramble' session with LLMs using voice (he writes '/voice'), typically ~10 minutes of stream-of-consciousness speech.
Key details
- He sometimes prefaces with a declaration like 'switching to speech recognition' or turns it into a short interview of a few turns to give the model extra context.
- Karpathy claims LLMs can reconstruct long incoherent rambles into a cleaner echo of your thoughts, improving the 'mind meld' and reducing the amount of correction needed afterward.