Comment by jreynar
4 hours ago
I may be biased because I work on an AI powered enterprise productivity product, but while I agree they have PMF right now, I wonder whether people's use will evolve in ways that undercut the current PMF. Chatting with an assistant is great if there's no product with tailored UI available that also has the AI capabilities. But once there is, I suspect people may switch, or more importantly enterprises may switch because they'll get the benefits of AI without the clunkiness of a chat only interface. We may see another DOS -> GUI-like shift.
More specialized products will consume tokens but their builders will be incented to optimize token use and switch models as costs and capabilities change. And if search engines become more AI capable, and Google is clearly striving for this, then they may have pressure from two sides that could squeeze the number of use cases for AI chat. AI coding isn't going anywhere and nor is the need for AI in general but I wonder if the products will have to evolve significantly to maintain the current levels of PMF. And then there's the question of profitability...
MCP-Apps could be the solution for tailored UI.