Dev Interrupted Your keyboard is the real bottleneck | Wispr’s Sahaj Garg
Feb 24, 2026
Sahaj Garg, co-founder and CTO of Wispr, builds voice-to-text tooling that captures developer intent. He discusses why old dictation failed, a two-layer approach of transcript plus context, turning messy speech into zero-edit artifacts, rapid UX experiments vs long-term model work, and how voice can remove keyboard bottlenecks for engineers and leaders.
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Zero Edit Rate Is The Real Goal
- Voice systems must do more than transcribe; they need context, memory, and user understanding to be useful.
- Sahaj Garg frames zero edit rate as the goal: get intent right first try so users never need to fix mistakes.
Run Research And Rapid UX Experiments In Parallel
- Build two parallel tracks: relentless model improvements and hyper-fast UX experimentation.
- Sahaj describes iterating UX every few hours while investing long-term in model scale and precision.
Voice Amplifies Ideas AI Can't Invent
- The unique value people bring to AI is their internal observations and intent; voice amplifies that to tooling and teams.
- Sahaj explains developers can “vibe code” ideas incomplete and let the tool help refine them into actionable plans.