I keep wondering when the input methods for LLMs will start to diverge from familiar chat and voice interfaces. A few links to things that seem relevant:

This talk from 12 years ago shows a coder who created a domain specific language for coding python by voice:

[www.youtube.com/watch

This paper discusses “Pen-Centric Shorthand Handwriting Recognition Interfaces”:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4488861

SkipWriter was a recent attempt at LLM-Powered Abbreviated Writing on Tablets:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3654777.3676423

The authors say:

Abbreviating with LLMs presents novel and largely untapped potentials for text input.

Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding (SHARK) was a keyboard replacement for iPhone and Android:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShapeWriter