It’s not just that you need to be a power user (I certainly am), you also need to be fine with nondeterminism and typing a lot of prose, instead of doing everything with keyboard shortcuts and CLI commands, with reproducible outcomes. It’s a different mode of operation and interaction, requiring a different predisposition to some degree.

Exactly! I don’t like talking or writing or explaining.

My mind generally uses language as little as possible, I have no inner monologue running in the background.

Greatly prefer something deterministic to random bs popping up without the ability of recognizing it.

I don’t like llms but sometimes use them as autocomplete or to generate words, like a template for a letter or boilerplate scripts, never for actual information (à la google).

unless you can type faster than you can talk, (which some people can), stop typing and start dictating. aider has a /voice command for a reason.

I don't use it exclusively, but damn does it help in the right places.

Can you elaborate, or give some examples? I am having trouble imagining in which situations that would be useful because I tend to put a lot of thought into defining the right prompt before sending it over.