Azeem Azhar Ditched His Laptop for a Week and Ran His Work via Voice Agents
Exponential View (Azeem Azhar) · rss · 2026-10-10
Exponential View author Azeem Azhar shares a real-life experiment: after forgetting his laptop on a trip to London, he ran his entire workweek through voice conversations with ChatGPT on his phone.
- Built on OpenAI's July GPT-Live release, which lets you direct agents by voice — "a little like talking to Jarvis," one that can put your (mostly digital) workshop to work.
- He argues decades of office work built on the assumption of sitting at a desk typing into Slack, Word, and Excel is a fiction now loosening — screen time will eventually end as voice-agent interaction takes over.
- A year ago he'd have been lost; now talking gets the work done, no squinting at small screens required.
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