AI has a UI problem
@OpenAI's decade of research worked when it became a chat UI
@cursor_ai fastest growing saas when they baked co-pilot into the editor UI
@meetgranola entered and scaling in the most AI saturated market with human agency... See more
This takes me to a second problem, though. Excel isn’t just giving suggestions - those tiles are documents, and documents are the start of a process, not an answer. You can see what you’ve built and what it’s doing, and how far you’ve got. The same sense of creation as process applies to Photoshop, Ableton or Powerpoint, or even a simple text... See more
We keep telling ourselves that previous voice interfaces like Alexa or Siri didn’t succeed because the underlying AI wasn’t smart enough, but that’s only half of the story. The core problem was never the quality of the output function, but the inconvenience of the input function: A natural language prompt like “Hey Google, what’s the weather in San... See more
This brings me to my core thesis: The inconvenience and inferior data transfer speeds of conversational interfaces make them an unlikely replacement for existing computing paradigms – but what if they complement them?