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?
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
What an interesting moment.
We're staring at two distinctly different visions of the future. They may co-exist, but they are radically different takes on what's modern, what's current, and where things are headed.
One vision gets the UI out of the way. The other vision is UI… Show more
My favorite example of truly effortless communication is a memory I have of my grandparents. At the breakfast table, my grandmother never had to ask for the butter – my grandfather always seemed to pass it to her automatically, because after 50+ years of marriage he just sensed that she was about to ask for it. It was like they were communicating... See more
Put another way, will humans will always want to do things like scroll Instagram, but perhaps won't ever want to open TurboTax/Docusign/Concur/Foursquare/etc. again?
This will likely bring a very psychological approach to company building in software (something well-known in consumer but lesser used in enterprise), as companies will have to look at... See more