I should give these voice models another try.

I have friends who have brainstormed with an LLM (voice chat) for 10-30 minutes, and reported very positive experiences.

When I speak to one - while I'm impressed at how far they've progressed - the LLM just doesn't talk like someone I'd want to discuss a technical problem with (the way I would with a human).

(And my friends aren't even using a custom prompt - some of them are just talking to the default Gemini on their phone!)

I also love exploring ideas like this. The problem that made me stop using Gemini is that it would always try really hard against all my prompting to ask a stupid question at the end of its response that would completely derail my train of thought.