Field notes on voice-driven development
Voice-driven development, parallel agent lanes, and dictation that works in your language.
Lifetime License vs Subscription for Dictation Apps
Compare lifetime and subscription dictation costs by usage horizon, update funding, vendor risk, and what a free trial proves.
July 21, 2026 · 5 min read
Where Your Voice Goes: Dictation Privacy, Honestly
Learn where dictation audio can travel, what privacy questions to ask, and how Keebye keeps speech-to-text and cleanup on your Mac.
July 21, 2026 · 5 min read
Driving Claude Code With Your Voice: Parallel-Lane Building
AI coding agents made typing the bottleneck. A practical workflow for dictating prompts, reviews, and redirects across parallel agent lanes on macOS.
July 10, 2026 · 6 min read
Why Dictation for Developers Shouldn't Be English-Only
Code is English; the workday around it often isn't. On-device multilingual dictation for the Slack messages, reviews, and docs you write in your own language.
July 10, 2026 · 5 min read
Dictation That Survives the Terminal
Dictation paste fails silently in terminals, SSH, tmux, and non-QWERTY layouts. Why clipboard-paste insertion breaks there, and what typing mode does instead.
July 10, 2026 · 7 min read
The Dictation App That Works When the Internet Doesn't
Cloud dictation dies with the network. Keebye runs speech-to-text fully on-device — no internet, no audio leaving your Mac, no outage that can break it.
July 10, 2026 · 6 min read
Say What I Said: Dictation Without the AI Rewrite
AI-enhanced dictation rewrites what you said — qualifiers dropped, meaning flipped. Why LLM polish pipelines paraphrase you, and why Keebye stays literal.
July 10, 2026 · 7 min read
Auto-Detect Keeps Guessing Wrong: Pin Your Language
Dictation keeps landing in the wrong language? Auto-detect thrashes on bilingual speech by design. Pin your language once and it stays pinned.
July 10, 2026 · 7 min read
Two Kids, Three Startups, One Voice
The founder story behind Keebye: parallel high-stakes workstreams, a baby under six months old, and output that scales with lanes your voice can drive.
July 10, 2026 · 5 min read
Why Dictation Apps Eat Your First Word
You press the hotkey, start talking, and the first word is cut off. Why cold-start clipping happens — and how a warm mic plus a 500 ms pre-roll fixes it.
July 10, 2026 · 7 min read
Your Dictation Should Never Just Vanish
You dictate a long thought, the insert fails, and the text is just gone. Why dictation apps lose your words — and the local, text-only history Keebye keeps.
July 10, 2026 · 7 min read