chat interface

also referred to as: chat interfaces

7 statements across 7 episodes · 1 bullish · 6 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Mar 23, 2016 by Rebecca Kaden · across every show →

Everything said about chat interface, oldest first

Mar 23, 2016 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Kaden predicts chat interfaces will be integrated into all tech products
“I think in general, the integration of chat is going to be into everything, and it's not really unique to IoT.”
Rebecca Kaden Mar 23, 2016 ▶ 10:19 20VC: Maveron's Rebecca Kaden on The Patterns Of Entrepreneurship and Taking A Consumer Product From Niche To Mass Market
May 22, 2024 negative
Insight
Levie: Chat interfaces merely turn graphical user interfaces into command lines
“Chat is more of like a UX paradigm shift. So it takes, you know, what used to be a graphic, you know, graphic user interface. And turns it more into a command line.”
Aaron Levie May 22, 2024 ▶ 10:25 Aaron Levie: How the Business Model of SaaS Changes Forever & Startups vs Incumbents:Who Wins?|E1155 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 19, 2024 negative
Opinion
Gomez: GUIs Are Not Dead and Should Not Be Fully Replaced by Chat
“Chat as an interface onto everything, I don't think makes sense. I don't want to have to type out explicitly my instructions to get stuff done. Like sometimes I just want to click some buttons and go through a GUI and get the job done. So yeah, I don't think l…”
Aidan Gomez Aug 19, 2024 ▶ 21:46 Aidan Gomez: What No One Understands About Foundation Models | E1191 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 4, 2025 negative
Disclosure
Mukherjee: Rox spent months building a chat AI agent before abandoning it
“The history of Farox is, it's a pretty experienced team. The first three to four months, we built a guard mode agent that knows everything about every customer with a chat interface. This does not work.”
Ishan Mukherjee Apr 4, 2025 ▶ 38:37 20Sales: How the Best Sales Teams Use AI to Win Enterprise Deals | Sales Teams Will Be Dramatically Smaller | How to Ramps Sales Reps Way Faster | Why Unpaid Design Partners are BS | Why this Generation of Sales is Soft with Ishan Mukherjee @ Rox
Apr 11, 2025 negative
Opinion
Nayak: Text-Based AI Chat Is Merely the MS-DOS Command-Line Phase
“Definitely not. It's the command line starting point of this new frontier, like the MS-DOS was, you know, way back when.”
Aatish Nayak Apr 11, 2025 ▶ 18:56 20Product: How Scale AI and Harvey Build Product | Why PMs Are Wrong: They are not the CEOs of the Product | How to do Pre and Post Mortems Effectively and How to Nail PRDs | The Future of Product Management in a World of AI with Aatish Nayak
May 18, 2026 negative
Opinion
Josh Browder: Chat interfaces are terrible for travel AI applications
“It's good in some areas, terrible in others. I think for the travel use case, it's terrible.”
Josh Browder May 18, 2026 ▶ 1:22:17 Turning Peter Thiel's $100K into $10M Angel Portfolio & Why VCs Can Be Sharks | Josh Browder · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jun 15, 2026 negative
Insight
Advertising in conversational search inherently corrupts user trust
“And so the chat interface doesn't capture that user intent, that user behavior right now, which is why it was never a great fit for advertising. And it also fundamentally corrupts the trust that people have when they go into a product and they want the accurat…”
Aravind Srinivas Jun 15, 2026 ▶ 10:21 Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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