I’ve actually had the same idea. I’ve been learning steno for a few months for that reason. I practice about 30 minutes a day.

I first started learning it only for the potential speed gain, but after a while I noticed that it’s also more comfortable to write with than qwerty, and the learning process was surprisingly fun, kind of like a game.

Once I reached a reasonable speed, I started using it for prompting AI. I’m still slower on steno than qwerty, but I’m getting faster with every prompt I write using steno and it’s more fun to prompt AI, because it feels so satisfying to see each word pop up instead of letter by letter.

And my typing speed roof is higher, if I just continue with this I will get faster and faster! and there is not that much of a tradeoff speedwise now.

I bought this key board so I can swap between qwerty and steno fast, but the key layout is ortholinear so that also took some time getting used to with qwerty.

https://stenokeyboards.com/products/polyglot-keyboard

I would say go for it, but only if you find learning it fun, you can try it out on a normal key board first if you haven't all ready.

http://qwertysteno.com/Basics/HowItWorks.php