Stop Typing to AI. Start Talking.
Did you know that talking to AI gives you better results than typing?
INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL
Fabricio De los Santos
5/26/20262 min read
Did you know that talking to AI gives you better results than typing?
I am a writer. And even as someone who has spent years choosing words carefully, I have to admit: writing is slow. You think, you draft, you delete, you start again. And somewhere in that back-and-forth, you lose something important.
Now imagine doing that same thing every time you want to ask AI a question.
Because that is exactly what most of us do.
We start typing a prompt. We realize it does not sound right. We erase it. We try again. By the time we hit send, the message we wrote is a pale version of the idea we actually had in our head.
And this matters more than you think.
Context is everything for AI.
The more complete and natural the context you give it, the better the response you get. Writing forces you to filter yourself. Speaking does not. When you talk, you give richer, more connected information, the kind that AI can actually work with.
There is also a technical reason for this, and it is simpler than it sounds.
AI processes language through vectors. You can think of them as mathematical coordinates for each word. The distance between words determines how they relate to each other. This is where Pythagoras comes in. Yes, the same formula you half-remember from school.
Here is a simple example. If I give AI the sentence: "In the forest, there are many..." the word wolves is mathematically closer to forest than dogs is. Not because AI is guessing, but because those words have spent centuries appearing near each other in human writing. Their vectors are close.
When you give AI vague or filtered input, you widen that search space unnecessarily. AI has to cover more ground to find the right answer.
When you speak, without editing yourself, you give it a richer signal. Specific words. Natural connections. Less noise.
The result: faster, more accurate, more useful responses.
This is not about using a different tool. It is about removing the layer of friction that writing puts between your real thought and the machine.
So here is a simple experiment: for the next few days, talk to your AI instead of typing to it. Use voice input. Speak the way you would explain something to a colleague.
Then tell me what you notice.
In the next issues, I will go deeper into how vectors work, what Pythagoras actually has to do with AI, and how vector databases store all of this, because understanding that changes how you think about prompting entirely.
Watch the video version
I recorded this reflection in Spanish and Portuguese. You can watch it on my YouTube channel:
See you soon!
Fabricio De los Santos
AI Solutions & Integration Architect | Business Automation | Systems Integration | Applied AI
