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Hot take: a 15 minute voice demo saved me 40 emails on a project

Had a dev in India last month who kept misunderstanding my spec. After 3 rounds of clarifying emails I just sent a 2 minute voice recording explaining the AI model output I needed. He nailed it on the first try after that. Has anyone else found voice notes beat typed communication for technical stuff?
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loganbaker
Ha! So we're all just out here playing email ping pong when we could be talking into our phones like normal people. I'm genuinely surprised it took the industry this long to figure out that 2000 words of "clarifying questions" can't hold a candle to 30 seconds of "no, the purple widget goes in the left hole." But hey, at least we got to practice our passive aggressive email writing skills.
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morgan.mary
@loganbaker Voice notes kill documentation trails everyone needs later.
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