TLDR Founders · MISCELLANEOUS
PRODUCT WON'T END AT CHAT
Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter
AI capabilities have run so far ahead of product design that we could stop all model development today and still have years of work left. Everyone's bundling everything into chat apps, but chat sucks for depth, workflow, and longitudinal data. There's a reason AI code generators are IDEs, not text boxes. We'll see the same unbundling that happened with Craigslist - horizontal chat platforms will disaggregate into deeper, purpose-built apps. Any guidebook or professional guide is a candidate for standalone AI apps that go beyond chat. The optimal product has yet to be discovered, but chat won't cut it.