Overhearing a phone call is fine. Overhearing someone talk to an AI agent — "no, the other file… revert that… no, not that one" — is a special kind of annoying. I'd know. I can't do it with my own wife in the room. Talking to a computer finally works. Doing it around other people doesn't.

English isn't my first language, so I expected it to mishear me. Instead, it understands me better than my keyboard does. In the mornings, I'm alone in my studio, and I just talk.

Then my wife comes home, and I stop. It gets on her nerves. Fair enough. A café would be worse: strangers are listening. It's not the volume. A phone call is fine because it's a conversation. Talking to an agent is commands to no one: fragments, corrections, orders. Your ears keep waiting for it to become a conversation. It never does.

For now, it's a mornings-only tool: me, the agent, and a cat who's too polite to complain.