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How AI made my workflow more mouse-driven than keyboard-driven

DEV Community·Trần Nguyên Châu·18 days ago
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Trần Nguyên Châu

Over the last year, I noticed something odd: I type less, but I’m still just as busy.

A lot of my work has shifted from writing to reviewing — reading AI outputs, comparing drafts, switching contexts, monitoring tools, and checking results. That means my hand is on the mouse much more often than before.

The problem is that most “productivity” actions on Windows still assume the keyboard is your main control surface.

Taking a screenshot, switching apps, snapping windows, opening a frequently used link — all easy, but oddly disruptive when you’re already in a mouse-driven flow.

That mismatch pushed me to build RightWheel, a small Windows utility that lets me trigger common actions directly from the mouse.

What interests me more than the tool itself is the broader shift: as AI changes work from typing to reviewing and orchestrating, it may also be changing our input habits.

Are you feeling that too?

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